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THE 


ORIGIN    AND    HISTORY 


OF 

GRACE   CHURCH 

Jamaica,    New   York 

BY 

HORATIO  OLIVER  LADD,  A.M.,  S.T.D. 

Rector  Emeritus 


THE  SHAKESPEARE  PRESS 

114-116  E.  28th  St. 

New  York 

1914 


Copyright,  19 14, 
By  Horatio  O.  Ladd. 


To  the  memory  of  faithful  and  tried 
Servants  of  Jesus  Christ  and  Minis- 
ters of  the  Church  of  God  this 
History  is  given  by  one  who  has 
entered  into  their  labors. 


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THE  PUBLISHED  WORKS 

OF  REV.  HORATIO  OLIVER  LADD,  A.  M.,  S.  T.  D. 


"  Memorial  of  John  S.  C.  Abbott,  D.  D."  1878,  pp.  36,  8vo,  A. 
Williams  &  Co. 

"  The  War  With  Mexico."  1883.  pp.  328.  8vo,  Dodd,  Mead  &  Co., 
New  York. 

"  The  Story  of  New  Mexico,"  1891,  pp.  473,  8vo,  D.  Lothrop  Co., 
Boston. 

"  The  Founding  of  the  Episcopal  Church  in  Dutchess  County, 
N.  Y.,"  1894,  pp.  46,  8vo. 

"  Chunda,  a  Story  of  the  Navajos,"  1906,  pp.  257,  Eaton  &  Mains, 
New  York. 

"  The  Trend  of  Scientific  Thought,"  1909,  pp.  29,  The  Gorham 
Press,  Boston. 

"  Ramona  Days,"  1887-1889,  pp.  242,  8vo. 

"  Grace  Church  Chimes,"  1897-1910,  Quarto. 

"  Origin  and  History  of  Grace  Church,"  1914,  pp.  475,  8vo,  The 
Shakespeare  Press,  New  York. 

Sermons  and  Addresses — Pamphlets. 

"  Memorial  of  Archdeacon  Cooper." 

"  Gambling  and  Its  Brood." 

"Historical  Address,"  Trinity  Church,  Fishkill,  150th  Anniver- 
sary, 1906. 

"  Story  of  the  Temptation,"  1906. 


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Grace  Church,  Jamaica, 

Exterior,   1906. 

(Photograph  by  Charles  C.  Napier.) 


CONTENTS 

PART  I 

The  Dutch  Colonial  Period. 

Origin,  Population  and  Settlement  of  Long  Island.  Political 
Divisions  and  Successions  of  Authority  during  Dutch  and  English 
Occupations.  Conflict  of  Denominations  and  the  Church  of  Eng- 
land. Legislation  to  establish  the  latter  in  authority  in  the  Province 
of  New  York.     Contemporary  conditions  of  the  people. 

PART  II 

The  English  Colonial  Period. 

The  Church  of  England  in  Queens  County.  Building  of  a  church 
in  Jamaica.  The  Society  for  the  Propagation  of  the  Gospel  organ- 
ized in  England.  Its  object  and  principles.  Application  of  Grace 
Church  for  a  missionary  rector. 

PART  III 

Period  of  the  Colonial  Missionaries — 1700- 1770. 

The  religious  needs  of  the  Colonies.  The  character  of  the  mis- 
sionaries. The  mission  of  Rev.  Patrick  Gordon — original  informa- 
tion from  the  archives  of  the  Venerable  Societies.  The  mission  of 
Rev.  Messrs.  Bartow,  Honeyman,  Urquhart.  Beginnings  of  a 
sectarian  controversy.  The  ministry  of  Rev.  Thomas  Poyer.  The 
Poyer  controversy — legal  aspects  and  decisions.  Legislation. 
Appeals  to  the  Queen's  Council.  Settlement  of  EngUsh  polity  in 
the  Provinces  resulting  therefrom.  Relations  of  St.  James  Church 
of  England  in  Newtown  and  St.  George's  in  Flushing  to  Grace 
Church,  Jamaica.  United  rectorships  under  the  Revs.  Thomas 
Colgan,  Samuel  Seabury,  Joshua  Bloomer.  The  American  Revolu- 
tion in  its  effects  on  the  Church  of  England  in  America.  The 
religious  conditions  of  the  period.  The  representations  of  the 
urgent  need  of  an  American  episcopate.  Separation  of  the  three 
Churches  from  the  Society  for  the  Propagation  of  the  Gospel,  and 
from  one  another. 

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PART  IV 

The   Post-Revolutionary   Rectorships — 1795-1896. 

Revs.  William  Hammell,  Elijah  D.  Rattoon,  and  Calvin  White.  Rev. 
Gilbert  Hunt  Sayres's  ministry  to  Grace  Church,  1810-1830.  The 
long  rectorship  of  Rev.  William  Lupton  Johnson,  1830-1870.  Build- 
ing of  the  new  church.  Memorials  and  memorial  gifts.  The  mod- 
ern period,  1892-1896 — Rev.  Dr.  Williamson  Smith,  Rev.  Edwin  B. 
Rice,  Rev.  Wm.  M.  Bottome. 

PART  V 

Recollections  of  the  Rectorship  of  the  Author — 1896-1910. 

Developments  of  church  life  and  worship  and  structure.  Grace 
Churchyard  and  its  associations.  The  inauguration  of  Rev.  Rock- 
land Tyng  Romans  as  rector,  and  the  building  of  the  Memorial 
Parish  House  of  Grace  Church. 

PART  VI 

The  charter  of  Grace  Church,  1761.  With  photographic  reproduc- 
tion of  first  page. 

PART  VII 

The  register  of  Rev.  John  Poyer.  With  photographic  reproduction 
of  first  pages,  1710-1731. 

PART  VIII 

Grace  Church  registers  to  1840.  Private  register  of  Rev.  Gilbert 
Sayres,  D.  D.,  to  1867. 

PART  IX 

The  Book  of  Burials  and  inscriptions  of  tombstones  to  1846,  com- 
piled by  H.  Onderdonk,  Jr.  With  photographic  reproductions  of 
two  pages. 

PART  X 
Pewholders  and  Communicants. 

INDEX 
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INTRODUCTION 

By  the  Right  Reverend  Frederick  Burgess,  D.  D. 
Bishop  of  Long  Island. 

This  History  of  Grace  Church,  Jamaica,  the  first  Church 
founded  by  the  Anglican  Communion  on  Long  Island,  is 
full  of  interest  not  merely  to  the  parishioners,  but  to  alt 
students  of  early  American  history.  In  its  clearly  written 
pages  Dr.  Ladd  has  traced  the  struggle  of  the  adherents  of 
the  English  Church  in  maintaining  the  public  worship  of 
God  according  to  the  Use  of  the  Book  of  Common  Prayer. 
The  thoughtful  reader  will  see  the  steady  growth  of  the 
Church  through  periods  of  neglect  and  persecution,  until 
it  emerges  into  the  position  of  influence  and  honor  which 
it  holds  to-day.  I  feel  that  the  writer  has  in  this  work, 
which  indicates  careful  study  and  thoughtful  selection, 
don^  a  distinct  and  valuable  service  not  only  to  the  Dio- 
cese of  Long  Island  but  to  the  Church  in  America.  It  is  a 
privilege  to  commend  it  to  all  who  are  interested  in  the 
religious  development  of  this  country,  and  more  especially 
to  those  who  see  in  the  Anglican  Episcopate  and  all  it 
represents,  the  true  promise  of  stability  for  the  Faith  and 
Communion  of  the  One,  Holy,  Catholic  and  Apostolic 
Church  in  the  United  States  of  America. 

FREDERICK  BURGESS, 

Bishop  of  Long  Island. 
April  28,  1914. 


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List  of  Illustrations 

Sketch  of  Grace  Church,  b)'  Bayard  Jones.    Cover. 

The  Author.     Frontispiece. 

The  Seal  of  the  S.  P.  G.    Title  Page. 

The  Archbishop  of  Canterbury,  Thos.  Tenison. 

Queen  Anne. 

The  Chalice  and  Paten  presented  to  Grace  Church  by  Queen  Anne's 

Bounty. 
Rev.  James  Honeyman.     Rev.  Thos.  Bray.    Rev.  Thomas  Poyer. 
Rev.  Thomas  Colgan. 

The  Rectory,  between  Flushing  and  Jamaica,  1774- 
The  Deed  of  Gift  of  Land  for  Church  and  Churchyard. 
The  First  Grace  Church. 
The  Right  Rev.  Samuel  Seabury,  D.  D.,  First  Bishop  of  the  Church 

in  America. 
The  Royal  Charter  of  Grace  Church. 
The  Rev.  Gilbert  Hunt  Sayres,  S.  T.  D. 
The  Second  Grace  Church. 

The  Hon.  Rufus  King,  from  Painting  by  Gilbert  Stuart. 
The  King  A^anor  House,  1840. 
The  Rev.  Charles  Seabury.    The  Rev.  Timothy  Clowes.    The  Rev. 

William  Lupton  Johnson,  D.  D. 
Grace  Church  Interior. 

Two  Views  of  the  Sanctuary  and  Churchyard. 
The  Rev.  George  Williamson  Smith.     The  Rev.  Edwin  B.  Rice. 

The  Rev.  William  M.  Bottome. 
Interior  of  Grace  Church,  1903-1910. 

The  Right  Rev.  Frederick  Burgess,  Bishop  of  Long  Island. 
The  Napier,  Johnson  and  Cogswell  Memorials.     The  Denton  and 

Stocking  Memorials.     The  Sayres  Memorial. 
The  Rev.  Arthur  Sloan. 
Grace  Memorial  House,  1913. 
The  Rev.  Rockland  Tyng  Homans. 
Photos  of  The  Register  of  Thomas  Poyer,  The  Book  of  Burials, 

Inscription. 


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PREFACE 

This  book  is  written  with  the  conviction  that  the  per- 
sonal and  dramatic  elements  of  history  are  as  important 
as  the  principles  which  are  motives  to  its  development.  In 
moral  and  social  progress  men  and  women  become  the 
visible  actors  and  representatives  of  passions  and  truths 
that  lead  to  the  self-denials  and  deeds  which  ennoble  the 
life  of  a  community  or  nation. 

Church  associations  and  movements  are  interesting  and 
stimulating  to  succeeding  generations  in  the  measure  that 
individuals  stand  out  in  the  incidents  and  results  that 
make  up  history. 

Therefore  this  eflfort  to  promote  loyalty  to  the  past  of 
Grace  Church  aims  to  preserve  to  another  century  the 
memorials  of  more  than  two  hundred  years  of  human  and 
Christian  activity  and  beneficence.  Much  more  has  been 
set  aside  than  has  been  presented  here,  to  show  the  force 
of  Church  ideals  and  conflicting  principles  and  passions. 
They  have  been  judged  with  calmness  and  impartiality. 
As  such  I  hope  the  treatment  of  individuals  and  measures 
may  be  accepted  by  my  readers. 

Special  acknowledgment  of  large  and  valuable  collec- 
tions of  material  for  history  made  by  Mr.  H.  Onderdonk, 
Jr.,  has  been  made  elsewhere  in  the  text.  For  the  genea- 
logical information  which  he  gathered  before  it  perished 
by  the  hand  of  time,  he  has  put  future  generations  in  debt. 
The  records  of  his  work  are  here  preserved. 


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The  Venerable  Society,  in  London,  gave  access  to  all 
their  archives,  with  a  courtesy  which  the  author  here 
gratefully  acknowledges.  The  New  York  State  Docu- 
mentary History  and  the  publications  of  the  New  York 
Historical  Society  have  made  possible  the  collation  of 
many  papers  and  facts  to  illumine  and  strengthen  the 
statements  of  this  narrative.  The  Vestry  of  Grace  Church 
have  most  kindly  offered  their  records  to  complete  and 
make  it  authentic.  ; 

There  are  references  in  the  text  to  other  sources  of  in- 
formation which  have  been  consulted.  The  author  asks 
only  that  charitable  judgment  which  must  be  allowed 
where  there  is  such  an  amount  of  detail,  covering  nearly 
three  centuries. 

To  the  publishers  who  have  not  spared  diligent  effort 
and  expense  in  the  illustration  and  making  of  the  book, 
and  for  the  encouragement  by  those  who  have  aided  in 
its  publication  by  advance  subscriptions,  and  to  the  faith- 
ful copyists,  the  author  is  deeply  grateful. 


HORATIO  OLIVER  LADD. 


Richmond  Hill,  N.  Y., 
May  1,  1914. 


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THE  DUTCH   COLONIAL   PERIOD 


GRACE    CHURCH,    JAMAICA 

CHAPTER  I. 
The  History  of  Her  Origin — The  Dutch  Colonial  Period. 

AT  the  western  end  of  what  is  now  Long  Island 
mingle  the  waters  of  the  Atlantic  Ocean,  the 
Highlands  of  New  York,  and  the  great  Sound 
into  which  the  Valleys  of  Connecticut  and  Rhode  Island 
and  Massachusetts  have  been  drained. 

On  the  same  shore  was  early  cast  the  confluence  of 
Dutch  and  English  and  French  navigators  and  settlers  of 
the  Old  World. 

Nearly  a  hundred  years  before  the  Church  of  England 
worship  was  begun  in  Jamaica,  Henry  Hudson,  an  Eng- 
lishman in  the  employ  of  the  Hudson  Bay  Company  of 
Holland,  attempted,  in  the  Half  Moon,  a  two-masted  sail- 
ing vessel  manned  by  twenty  Dutch  and  English  sailors, 
to  enter  the  Rockaway  inlet  to  Jamaica  Bay.  Wind  and 
tide  and  threatening  breakers  prevented,  and  these  Euro- 
peans passed  further  west  and  sailed  up  the  "Narrows" 
of  what  is  now  New  York  Bay. 

This  voyage  gave  the  first  possession  of  what  is  now 
New  York  to  the  Dutch,  but  during  that  century  Dutch 
and  English  and  French  people  occupied  these  island 
shores,  which  their  representatives  under  the  brave  Hud- 
son's command  had  opened  up  to  civilization  and  the 
Christian  religion. 

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14  ORIGIN    AND    HISTORY 

The  West  India  Company  soon  made  profitable  trade 
with  natives  and  settlers.  They  called  the  province  New 
Netherland.  It  was  governed  by  civil  and  military  officers 
under  oath  of  obedience  to  the  States  General.  The  grant 
of  the  English  King  to  the  Colony  of  Virginia  including 
this  part  of  the  Atlantic  coast  did  not  establish  a  title  to 
it.  Governor  Bradford  of  the  Plymouth  Colony,  in  his 
correspondence  with  Governor  Minuit,  when  protesting 
that  the  Dutch  were  settled  within  the  limits  of  the  grants 
made  to  the  Virginia  Colony,  received  the  spirited  reply 
•'the  Dutch  settlers  derived  their  authority  from  the  States 
of  Holland  and  will  defend  it."*  The  protest  of  the  Puri- 
tans of  New  England  against  the  Hollanders'  right  to  settle 
in  New  Netherland  was  void  of  truth  and  ineffective.  The 
Puritans  themselves  had  sought  the  protection  of  the 
Prince  of  Orange  and  the  States  General  in  their  expedi- 
tions to  these  shores,  asking  that  they  might  come  as 
Dutch  subjects.  The  Hollanders  were  in  possession  of 
Manhattan,  and  their  claims  to  Long  Island  were  as 
sturdily  maintained. 

The  region  of  New  York  and  Maryland,  which  was  oc- 
cupied by  prosperous  Dutch  settlements  in  1625  and  fol- 
lowing years,  was  included  in  the  possessions  of  Holland 
by  right  of  discovery.  They  had  fortified  places  on  the 
Hudson  River,  like  New  York  and  Albany,  and  were  strong 
in  their  possession  of  that  river.  A  treaty  of  alliance  was 
made  later  on  between  Charles  I  and  Holland  under  which 
Holland  transferred  her  authority  over  New  Netherland 
to  the  English  Crown. 

The  English  Colonies,  in  a  spirit  which  still  survives  in 
the  blood,  asserted  their  right  to  dispose  of  all  North 


*History  of  the  American  People  by  Woodrow  Wilson. 


OF   GRACE   CHURCH  l5 

America.  William  Alexander,  the  first  Lord  Stirling,  pos- 
sessed by  a  grant  from  James  VI,  as  represented  by  his 
biographer,  three  separate  tracts  of  land  within  the  original 
grant  to  the  Colony  of  Virginia.  These  grants  covered  the 
immense  country  of  Nova  Scotia,  the  whole  extent  of 
Long  Island  and  the  country  of  St.  Croix,  or  Sagadahock, 
adjoining  Nova  Scotia,  and  extending  west  to  the  Kenne- 
bec River,  which  was  a  large  part  of  the  territory  subse- 
quently belonging  to  the  State  of  Maine. 

About  the  year  1635  Charles  I  had  requested  the  direct- 
ors of  the  Plymouth  Colony  to  issue  a  patent  for  these 
possessions,  which  was  supposed  to  be  included  in  the 
Charter  to  that  Colony  out  of  the  possessions  of  the  super- 
seded Virginia  Colony.  This  patent  was  given  to  the  Earl 
of  Stirling  in  1637.  He  was  thus  made  the  largest  landed 
proprietor  in  America.  He  had  maintained  a  thriving  col- 
ony of  several  thousand  families  through  the  whole  extent 
of  Long  Island,  which  was  governed  by  his  deputy.  He 
died  in  1640,  and  about  the  year  1662,  the  second  Earl  of 
Stirling  conveyed  his  title  to  Long  Island  for  a  considera- 
tion of  three  hundred  pounds  per  annum.  This  was  in 
order  to  confirm  the  title  of  the  Duke  of  York,  (afterwards 
James  II  of  England)  which  he  then  held  by  a  grant  from 
the  Crown.* 

Armed  with  this  title  a  colony  from  Lynn,  Massachu- 
setts, settled  at  Cow  Bay,  within  the  present  limits  of 
Queens  County.  This  was  the  first  invasion.  A  few  peo- 
ple sided  with  them,  but  the  settlement  was  soon  broken  up. 


♦The  life  of  William  Alexander,  Earl  of  Stirling,  by  his  grand- 
son, William  Alexander  Duer,  LL.  D.,  published  by  the  New 
Jersey  Society,  1847. 


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ORIGIN    AND    HISTORY 


Thos.  Tenison,  Archbishop  of  Canterbury 


The   Dutch   Colonial    Period. 


The  Dutch  had  secured  in  1639,  by  purchase  from  the 
Indians,  an  equitable  title  to  the  land  in  Queens  County,  in 
which  was  reserved  to  the  Indians  the  rights  of  hunting 
and  planting.  Governor  Kieft  was  so  liberal  towards  set- 
tlers that  conflicts  ceased,  and  those  who  chafed  at  the 
restrictions  and  persecutions  of  the  Puritan  Government 
in  New  England  again  came  hither  and  lived  in  peace  with 
the  Dutch  farmers.  These  later  settlers  were  largely  loyal 
to  the  Church  of  England  in  their  faith. 


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As  early  as  1645,  there  was  more  contention  in  Flushing 
by  the  heirs  of  Lord  Stirling.  Their  agent  was  arrested 
and  sent  to  Holland.  A  non-conformist  minister  of  the 
Church  of  England,  the  Rev.  Francis  Doughty,  made  trou- 
ble in  Newtown  and  Flushing  by  stirring  up  opposition  to 
Dutch  rule.  But  Jamaica  attracted  her  English  inhabi- 
tants from  Independents  further  west  on  the  island.  Here 
were  gathered  Dutch,  English,  Presbyterians  and  adherents 
to  the  Church  of  England.  A  ship-load  of  members  of  the 
Society  of  Friends  also  distributed  themselves  over  Jamaica 
and  Flushing.  The  Dutch  were  opposed  to  their  doctrines 
and  practices,  but  they  held  meetings  in  Jamaica  in  the 
houses  of  those  who  would  shelter  them.  Henry  Town- 
send  was  arrested  and  banished  by  the  authorities  for  this 
offense.  Fines  and  confiscations  were  threatened  to  those 
who  brought  Friends  to  these  shores  or  harbored  them  in 
their  homes  for  a  single  night.  Twenty-eight  freeholders 
of  Flushing  and  Jamaica  braved  the  proclamation  and 
wrath  of  Governor  Stuyvesant,  declaring  they  should  be 
glad  to  see  anything  of  God  in  either  Presbyterian,  Inde- 
pendent, Baptist  or  Quaker,  and  that  they  would  be  true 
to  the  law  of  Church  and  State,  which  was  to  do  good  unto 
all  men  as  they  desired  all  men  to  do  unto  them. 

For  this  offense  the  magistrates  and  signers  were  ar- 
rested, but  only  the  Sheriff  among  them  all  suffered  pen- 
alties, being  degraded  from  office  and  sentenced  to  pay  a 
fine  of  200  guilders  or  to  be  banished. 

(1662-1665.)  A  small  frame  building  erected  by  vote 
of  a  town  meeting  was  sufficient  for  all  religious  assemblies 
and  political  meetings. 

The  persecutions  of  the  Quakers  continued,  but  they 
flourished  more  and  more.    Some  of  them  became  fanatics 


18  ORIGIN    AND    HISTORY 

in  opposing  the  authorities,  but  most  of  these  Friends  pre- 
vailed over  their  foes  by  good  conduct,  and  under  Charles 
il's  rule  these  people  and  their  religion  were  protected,  and 
they  dwelt  in  peace  with  their  neighbors. 

The  treaty  of  1650  between  New  Netherland  and  the 
Colonies  of  New  Haven  and  Connecticut  gave  all  of  Long 
Island  east  of  Oyster  Bay  and  that  part  of  the  main  land 
east  of  Greenwich  Bay  to  the  United  Colonies.  The  Eng- 
lish settlers,  however,  encroached  upon  what  was  reserved 
in  this  treaty  in  Long  Island.  Passing  their  boundary  line, 
they  came  to  the  western  extremity..  This  was  the  original 
movement  of  Independents  into  Hempstead,  Middleburgh, 
and  Jamaica,  and  these  towns  and  Flushing,  in  order  to 
make  their  independence  of  the  Dutch  complete,  changed 
their  names.  Gemego,  the  original  name  of  Jamaica,  be- 
came Crafford,  and  Flushing  was  called  Newarke,  New- 
town or  Middleburgh  was  changed  to  the  name  of  Hast- 
ings. With  Hempstead  and  Gravesend  these  towns  united 
for  protection  and  civic  purposes  under  a  President,  Cap- 
tain John  Scott,  who  was  an  English  adventurer  and 
formerly  an  officer  in  the  army  of  Charles  I.  They  were 
thus  temporarily  organized  in  the  expectation  that  Charles 
II  should  establish  a  government  over  them.  Both  the 
Connecticut  and  Dutch  authorities  were  displeased,  and 
Scott  was  brought  to  trial  at  Hartford,  Connecticut.  The 
residents  of  Flushing  testified  that  he  had  acted  according 
to  the  will  of  the  people,  but  Captain  Scott  was  removed, 
and  the  authority  of  the  General  Assembly  of  Connecti- 
cut was  established  over  these  towns. 

(1664.)  At  the  close  of  this  Dutch  Colonial  period  of 
the  history  of  the  towns  of  Jamaica  and  Flushing  and  New- 
town, we  find  the  people  out  of  whom  Grace  Church 


OF   GRACE   CHURCH  19 

sprang  living  in  plain  but  comfortable  conditions.  The 
occupation  of  farming  was  most  frequent.  Their  homes 
were  suited  to  a  farmer's  wants.  The  floors  were  sprinkled 
with  sand,  the  plates  and  dishes  were  of  pewter,  and  some- 
times of  silver,  the  chairs  and  settees  had  high  backs,  and, 
if  cushioned,  were  studded  with  brass  nails.  Their  ser- 
vants were  kindly  treated,  being  Indian  or  negro  slaves. 
Marriages  could  only  be  performed  under  the  Governor's 
license.  Their  funerals  were  conducted  with  great  for- 
mality; badges  were  provided  to  be  used  in  the  processions, 
and  feasts  with  liquors  followed  them.  Sunday  afternoon 
visiting  was  common.  Christmas  and  New  Year's  Day 
were  celebrated  with  noise  and  revelry,  and  Easter  week 
was  given  up  to  joyous  festivities.  Trade  was  made  by 
barter,  and  Indian  wampum  was  the  principal  money  in 
circulation.  Punishments  of  crime  were  by  whipping, 
branding  or  hanging. 

As  Jamaica  is  now  a  part  of  the  Greater  New  York,  the 
contemporary  conditions  of  what  is  now  Manhattan  Bor- 
ough will  give  us  an  understanding  of  the  difficulties  and 
aids  which  were  to  be  expected  by  the  first  ministers  of  the 
Church  of  England  in  what  had  been  a  Dutch  Colony. 
New  Amsterdam,  as  New  York  was  named  and  as  it  ap- 
peared under  Peter  Stuyvesant,  was  built  on  the  triangular 
point  of  the  island  of  Manhattan  between  the  two  rivers, 
with  an  embankment  surmounted  with  wood  on  the  land 
side  running  across  the  island,  where  Wall  Street  now  is 
seen.  The  houses  were  mostly  of  wood,  a  few  of  stone, 
built  with  low  sloping  roofs  and  their  gable  ends  upon  the 
irregular  streets.  The  chimneys  built  of  brick  imported 
from  Holland  were  on  the  outside  of  the  houses.  There 
were  at  first  about  one  hundred  houses,  but  under  Stuy- 
vesant's  administration  a  brick  yard  was  started,  and  the 


20  ORIGIN    AND    HISTORY 

town  had  taken  on  a  more  substantial  and  regular  look,  but 
the  ample  gardens  and  fruit  trees  were  visible  among  the 
houses.  There  was  a  Stadt  Huys  and  a  Debtors'  Prison. 
There  was  a  Dutch  stone  church  within  the  fort  where  one 
of  the  two  literary  characters  of  New  York,  Jacob  Steen- 
dam  and  Nicasius  De  Stille,  was  married  to  Tryntie  Crove- 
gers.  This  was  a  great  occasion  in  Stuyvesant's  official 
career,  for  Stille  was  his  Councillor  and  a  widower,  with  a 
family  whose  social  connections  brought  a  characteristic 
throng  of  friends  to  the  wedding,  in  garb  betokening  their 
wealth. 

The  people  of  Amsterdam  were  as  now  a  motley  collec- 
tion of  Dutch  burghers  and  foreigners.  The  negroes,  of 
whom  there  were  many,  were  mostly  slaves.  The  appear- 
ance of  a  church  congregation  on  the  wedding  day  of  De 
Stille  and  his  bride,  who  were  of  the  rich  and  literary  circles 
of  the  town,  was  not  unlike  a  modern  wedding  in  Fifth 
Avenue,  except  in  the  style  of  garments.* 

"Into  the  church  went  the  friends,  women,  some  with 
petticoats  of  red  cloth,  some  with  skirts  of  blue  or  purple 
silk  set  off  with  rare  lace,  all  with  silken  hoods  over  much 
befrizzled  hair,  and  their  fingers  covered  with  glittering 
rings,  and  with  great  lockets  of  gold  on  their  bosoms.  Each 
had  a  Bible  fastened  to  her  girdle  by  links  of  gold— not  the 
plain,  strongly  bound  Bibles  used  by  Jacob  Steendam  and 
his  friends,  but  elaborately  wrought  in  silver,  with  golden 
clasps.  The  men  were  just  as  gaily  dressed  as  the  women, 
for  they  wore  long  coats  adorned  with  shining  buttons  and 
pockets  trimmed  with  lace  and  colored  waistcoats,  knee 
breeches  of  velvet,  silk  stockings  and  low  shoes  set  off  by 
silver  buckles.    Outside  the  fort  among  the  townspeople 


♦Literary  New  York,  Hemstreet. 


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of  lower  degree  it  was,  too,  quite  a  holiday.  Men  with 
coarse  frocks  and  leather  aprons,  women  in  homespun 
gowns,  turbaned  negresses,  swarthy  negro  slaves,  dusky 
Indians — all  made  merry  in  their  several  ways,  as  though 
glad  of  an  excuse.  And  the  motley  throng  outside  the  fort 
and  the  elegant  gathering  within  all  made  way  for  the 
wrinkled  little  bell-ringer,  who  carried  the  cushions  from 
the  Stadt  Buys  for  the  burgomasters  and  the  schepens, 
who  insisted  on  every  bit  of  their  dignity,  come  what  would 
on  this  day  or  on  any  other."* 

♦Literary  New  York. 


II 

THE   ENGLISH  COLONIAL  PERIOD 


OF   GRACE    CHURCH  25 


CHAPTER  II. 
The  Church  of  England  in  Queens  County. 

A  white  thread  of  Church  of  England  life  and  authority 
runs  through  the  weaving  of  the  history  of  Queens  County 
for  thirty  years  before  her  name  was  clearly  written  on 
the  religious  characters  and  works  which  began  with  her 
organization  in  the  year  which  closed  the  seventeenth 
century. 

The  transference  of  government  from  the  Dutch  to  the 
English  in  1664  brought  New  Netherland  under  the  control 
of  James,  the  Duke  of  York,  to  whom  King  Charles  II  had 
given  a  patent.  New  Amsterdam  was  surrendered  to  an 
English  fleet  Sept.  8,  and  its  name  changed  to  New  York. 
Governor  Nichols  ruled  in  the  place  of  Governor  Stuy- 
vesant,  who  went  to  Holland,  but  having  there  made  his 
report,  returned  to  live  a  few  years  in  New  York  on  his 
farm,  where  he  was  buried  beneath  a  chapel  which  after- 
wards became  St.  Mark's  Church.  What  now  constitutes 
the  boroughs  of  Richmond,  the  Bronx  and  Queens,  became 
the  county  of  Yorkshire,  and  Queens  County,  except  New- 
town, became  the  North  Riding. 

(1664.)  An  assembly  of  delegates  met  at  Hempstead 
the  same  year  to  make  laws  for  Yorkshire,  known  as  the 
Duke's  Laws.  These  laws  did  not  establish  the  Church 
of  England  in  the  Province,  but  they  required  that  every 
town  should  build  and  maintain  a  church.  No  minister 
was  allowed  to  officiate  who  had  not  received  ordination, 
either  from  some  Protestant  Bishop  or  minister  within  his 


26  ORIGIN    AND    HISTORY 

Majesty's  domain  or  within  the  dominion  of  some  foreign 
prince  of  the  Reformed  Religion.  Two  overseers  in  each 
town  were  to  be  chosen  to  make  the  rate  of  assessment  for 
the  support  of  the  church  and  clergymen. 

The  people  of  Queens  County  were  dissatisfied  with 
these  laws,  and  because  they  made  no  provision  for  a  rep- 
resentative form  of  government  dissensions  arose.  The 
inhabitants  were  arrested  and  fined  for  uttering  seditious 
language.  Governor  Nichols  reproved  them  in  person 
during  his  official  visits.  Under  the  succeeding  adminis- 
tration of  Governor  Lovelace  the  same  agitations  for  rep- 
resentation broke  out. 

(1664.)  The  Hollanders  were  at  the  time  of  the  surren- 
der of  Manhattan  Island  to  the  English  maintaining  two 
churches  on  Long  Island,  one  at  Flatbush  and  one  at 
Brooklyn.  As  their  influence  diminished  under  English 
rule  they  began  to  make  more  settlements  on  the  western 
end  of  Long  Island. 

"The  language  of  Holland  was  generally  spoken;  the 
arcnitecture  of  Holland  was  reproduced  in  the  construction 
of  the  houses;  the  steady  industry  and  thorough  agricul- 
tural methods  of  Holland  were  appUed  to  the  broad  smooth 
lands;  and  the  social  and  domestic  customs  of  the  old  coun- 
try were  still  preserved  under  the  quiet  roofs  of  our  earlier 
Long  Island  homes."* 

As  early  as  1656  land  was  purchased  of  the  Rockaway 
Indians  for  settlement  in  Jamaica,  from  whom  the  name 
of  Gemego  or  Jameco  was  derived,  and  which  prevailed 
instead  of  the  name  of  Rusdorp,  which  the  Dutch  govern- 


*J.  G.  Van  Slyke  Historical  Discourse,   1876.     The  Reformed 
Church,  Jamaica. 


OF   GRACE    CHURCH  27 

ment  assigned  to  it.  On  Aug.  30th,  1663,  it  was  voted, 
and  it  was  agreed  by  the  town,  that  ''a  meeting  house  shall 
be  built  by  the  town,  26  feet  square."  This  was  erected, 
and  the  worshippers  were  called  to  it  by  the  beating  of  a 
drum.  The  services  were  only  occasional  in  this  the  first 
town  church,  and  the  organization  of  a  Dutch  church  is 
placed  in  the  year  of  the  first  recorded  baptism  June  1, 
1702.  Religious  dissensions  among  the  Dutch  families  of 
Queens  County  caused  some  to  enter  into  the  communion 
of  the  Episcopal  Church,  the  adherents  of  which  completed 
the  second  town  church  by  their  aid.  The  Dutch  Consist- 
ory, in  1715,  built  their  own  church  edifice  for  all  their 
people  in  Queens  County,  having  become  happily  at  peace 
with  one  another. 

(1672.)  The  war  between  England  and  Holland 
brought  New  York  and  the  eastern  towns  of  Long  Island 
again  under  Dutch  rule  for  a  year,  and  a  Dutch  Reformed 
Church  was  established  in  Flushing,  but  that  village  had  no 
resident  minister.  But  in  a  year,  through  the  declaration 
of  peace,  Major  Andros  was  appointed  by  the  Duke  of 
York  Governor  of  New  York,  and  the  English  were  ever 
afterwards  in  permanent  possession  of  the  east  end  of  the 
Province. 

(1683,  Oct.  17.)  Under  the  administration  of  Andros 
the  first  representative  body  in  the  Province  of  New  York 
held  its  first  meeting.  There  were  eighteen  freeholders  of 
the  Province  in  this  General  Assembly.  They  divided 
Yorkshire  into  three  Counties,  Kings,  Queens  and  Suffolk, 
establishing  their  present  County  lines  except  as  affected 
by  the  formation  of  Nassau  County. 


28  ORIGIN    AND    HISTORY 

(1685.)  When  the  Duke  of  York  became  King  James 
II  and  New  York  a  royal  Province,  the  General  Assembly 
was  abolished  and  James  was  proclaimed  Sovereign  of  the 
Province.  This  seriously  affected  church  movements, 
which  were  made  under  the  representative  government. 
In  1862  the  Presbyterian  Church  was  existing  in  Jamaica 
and  public  worship  established,  but  no  church  was  built. 
There  were  Church  of  England  people  in  Jamaica,  New- 
town and  Flushing  at  this  time,  and  Dutch  Reformed  and 
Friends  in  each  of  these  townships,  but  none  of  these  had 
erected  places  of  worship  except  the  Dutch  in  Jamaica. 
The  Province  of  New  York  was  under  the  supervision  of 
the  Committee  on  Foreign  Plantations  in  King  James' 
Government.  By  royal  authority  new  instructions  were 
issued  to  Governor  Dungan  of  New  York,  which  brought 
the  Church  of  England  into  prominence.  These  instruc- 
tions gave  the  Church  of  England  the  same  position  in 
New  York  that  it  had  always  occupied  in  the  Mother 
Country.  They  were  as  follows:  "Ye  shall  take  special 
care  that  God  Almighty  be  devoutly  and  duly  served 
throughout  your  government:  the  Book  of  Common 
Prayer  as  it  is  now  established  read  each  Sunday  and  holi- 
day, and  the  Blessed  Sacrament  administered  according  to 
the  rites  of  the  Church  of  England  =!=  *  *  that  no  min- 
ister be  preferred  by  you  to  any  ecclesiastical  benefices  in 
that  Province,  without  a  certificate  from  the  most  Rever- 
end, the  Lord  Archbishop  of  Canterbury,  of  his  being  con- 
formable to  the  doctrine  and  discipline  of  the  Church  of 
England,  and  of  good  life  and  conversation."  (Doc.  Ill, 
36,372.) 

Thus  the  Church  of  England  became  the  established 
church  of  the  Province;  but  also,  by  further  provision  in 


OF   GRACE    CHURCH  29 

these  instructions  to  the  Governor,  liberty  of  conscience 
and  religion  was  given  to  persons  of  all  creeds.  The 
Governor  was  directed  ''to  permit  all  persons  of  what 
religion  so  ever  quietly  to  inhabit  within  your  government 
without  giving  them  any  disturbance  or  disquiet  whatever 
for  or  by  reason  of  their  diflfering  opinions  in  matters  of 
religion.  Provided  they  give  noe  disturbance  to  the  public 
peace,  nor  doe  disquiet  others  in  the  exercise  of  their  re- 
ligion." (Doc.  Ill,  218,  359,  373,  vid  Waller's  History  of 
Flushing,  pp.  79,  80.) 

Under  James  II  all  New  England,  New  York  and  New 
Jersey  were  included  in  the  administration  of  Governor 
Edmund  Andros,  who  was  assisted  by  a  council  of  forty- 
two  appointed  by  the  King  from  the  several  Colonies.  The 
Governor  and  seven  members  of  the  Council  could  at  any 
time  make  laws.  But  in  the  two  years  during  which  this 
government  continued  no  further  mention  is  made  of  the 
authority  of  the  Archbishop  of  Canterbury  or  of  the 
Bishop  of  London. 

(1689.)  The  Colonies  rebelled  against  Governor 
Andros  when  William,  Prince  of  Orange,  and  Mary  were 
proclaimed  King  and  Queen  of  England.  The  towns  of 
Flushing,  Hempstead,  Jamaica  and  Newtown  petitioned 
for  a  new  Governor,  and  were  delivered  from  the  oppres- 
sion of  those  who  had  usurped  the  authority  of  William 
and  Mary,  who,  after  the  arrival  of  the  new  Governor, 
were  convicted  of  treason  and  murder,  and  their  leadef 
executed. 

The  Quakers  built  the  first  meeting  house  in  Flushing 
in  1694,  where  the  only  stated  religious  services  in  any  of 
these  towns  up  to  this  time  were  held. 


30  ORIGIN    AND    HISTORY 

( 1 693. )  There  was  so  much  neglect  of  religion  in  these 
towns  of  Long  Island,  and  so  much  laxity  of  morals  as  to 
compel  the  notice  of  Governor  Fletcher  of  New  York.  In 
an  address,  he  said:  "I  have  the  power  of  collating  or 
suspending  any  minister,  and  I  will  take  care  that  neither 
heresy,  sedition  or  rebellion  be  preached,  nor  vice  and  pro- 
fanity encouraged.  It  is  my  endeavor  to  lead  a  pious, 
virtuous  life  and  to  give  a  good  example."  This  Governor 
compelled  the  Assembly  to  adopt  an  act  "for  settling  ye 
ministry."  It  prohibited  profaneness,  ordered  that  two 
Protestant  ministers  should  be  sent  to  Queens  County- 
one  to  have  the  care  of  Jamaica  and  adjacent  towns— and 
levied  an  assessment  of  £60  each  year  in  country  produce, 
at  money  price,  to  pay  the  minister's  salary.  Ten  vestry- 
men and  two  church  wardens  were  to  be  elected  and  the 
parish  tax  rigidly  enforced. 

(1693.)  The  Church  of  England  idea  of  worship  was 
thus  made  prominent.  Yet  these  efforts  of  Governor 
Fletcher  were  apparently  ineffectual,  for  his  ministerial 
act  was  ridiculed,  and  unobserved.  But  they  led  to  some 
action  in  Jamaica  towards  building  a  church. 

(1694.)  This  was  the  beginning,  three  years  before 
Trinity  Church  of  New  York  was  incorporated,  of  a  con- 
troversy which  lasted  twenty-six  years,  and  its  bitter  flavor 
remained  in  the  community  a  hundred  years  longer. 

(1697-98.)  A  town  meeting  was  called  to  see  about 
building  a  meeting  house.  A  committee  was  appointed  to 
solicit  and  gather  material,  while  even  yet  the  site  was 
not  determined,  but  ordered  to  be  located  in  the  highway. 
A  year  after  it  was  voted  to  erect  a  church  or  meeting 
house,  and  that  a  committee  should  canvass  the  town  for 


OF   GRACE   CHURCH  31 

voluntary  offerings  to  build  the  church.  In  a  somewhat 
contentious  spirit  others  got  subscriptions  and  material 
enough  to  put  up  the  building  three  feet  from  the  ground 
and  then  stopped. 

In  1698  the  population  of  Flushing  was  530  whites  and 
130  negroes,  and  that  of  Jamaica  was  about  the  same. 

(1699,  May  16.)  The  Assembly  Church  Building  Act 
of  the  next  year  made  it  possible  to  finish  the  building  by 
assessments  and  compulsory  payment  of  these,  by  those 
who  were  of  all  religious  faiths  and  preferences. 

There  now  were  many  dissenters  who,  being  forced  to 
pay  rates  for  the  religious  services,  sided  with  those  who 
held  that  a  maxim  of  English  law  was  applicable  in 
Jamaica.  All  meeting  houses  raised  by  public  tax  become 
vested  in  the  ministry  established  by  law,  and  so  of  all 
lands  and  glebes  set  aside  by  public  town  meetings.  Every 
church  of  common  right  is  entitled  to  a  house  and  glebe; 
and  they  belong  to  the  Rector,  ex  officio. 

This  church  had  been  largely  built  by  private  subscrip- 
tions, and  as  those  who  were  elected  under  the  Act  requir- 
ing wardens  and  vestryment  to  be  elected  were  in  a 
majority  Presbyterians,  they  raised  an  issue  with  the 
Church  of  England  people  in  Jamaica. 

(1699.)  This  was  the  beginning  of  the  united  action  of 
Church  of  England  people  in  Jamaica.*  They  claimed  the 
exclusive  use  of  the  building  erected,  and  yet  had  no  regu- 
lar minister.  The  Presbyterians  employed  the  Rev.  John 
Hubbard,  who  was  ordained  in  1700.  and  was  strongly 


*Doc.  Hist.,  Ill,  244. 


32  ORIGIN    AND    HISTORY 

opposed  to  Church  of  England  worship,  to  hold  service  in 
the  Church,  and  he  was  called  to  be  Rector  in  February 
1702,  by  the  vestry. 

The  Society  for  the  Propagation  of  the  Gospel  in  foreign 
parts  had  resolved  not  to  obtrude  the  Episcopal  service 
upon  the  Colonists  against  their  wishes.  They  did  not 
therefore  appoint  missionaries  until  applications  were 
made  by  the  Colonists  for  ministers  of  the  Church  of 
England,  nor  until  they  were  assured  that  adequate  means 
would  be  provided  for  their  comfort  and  support. 

As  soon  as  the  formation  of  the  Society  was  known, 
applications  for  missionaries  were  received  from  various 
parts  of  America.  It  became  their  duty  to  send  Episcopal 
clergymen  to  the  Colonies.  They  felt  an  awful  responsi- 
bility resting  upon  them.  Learning,  diligence,  piety,  zeal 
and  discretion  were  deemed  indispensable  qualifications  in 
these  missionaries.  They  determined  therefore  that  none 
should  be  employed  unless  they  produced  satisfactory  tes- 
timonials of  their  "temper  and  prudence,  their  learning 
and  sober  conversation,  their  zeal  for  the  Christian  religion, 
their  affection  to  the  Government,  and  conformity  to  the 
doctrine  and  discipline  of  the  Church  of  England,"  and  as 
an  additional  security  their  "testimonials  were  to  be  signed 
by  their  respective  diocesans." 

The  Society  for  the  Propagation  of  the  Gospel  was  spe- 
cially charged  with  the  religious  instruction  of  the  British 
Colonies  in  America  and  the  West  Indies,  while  the  Society 
for  Promoting  of  Christian  Knowledge  provided  for  the 
spiritual  wants  of  England  and  other  parts  of  the  British 
Empire. 


Ill 

PERIOD  OF  THE  COLONIAL 

MISSIONARIES-1700-1770 


Queen's  Arms 


Rev.  Thomas  Ponkk. 


Rev.   )ames  Honey  max. 


Rev.  Thomas  Bray. 


OF   GRACE    CHURCH  35 


CHAPTER  III. 

The  Needs  of  the  American  Colonies,  and  the  Response 

to  Their  Call. 

The  English  Colonies  in  America  at  the  close  of  the  sev- 
enteenth century  showed  the  sad  effects  of  the  political 
and  religious  dissensions  of  Great  Britain.  But  there  was 
wise  forethought  of  the  religious  needs  of  the  Colonies, 
and  one  of  the  first  far-reaching  efforts  to  check  and  re- 
move from  them  the  prevailing  infidelity  and  immorality 
was  the  founding  at  Oxford  of  two  fellowships  between 
1660  and  1670.  These  were  to  be  held  by  persons  in  holy 
orders  ''who  should  be  willing  to  take  upon  them  the  care 
of  souls  in  foreign  plantations." 

In  the  same  period  the  Boyle  lectureship  was  established, 
to  show  to  all  succeeding  generations  the  great  duty  of 
converting  infidels  to  the  faith  of  Christ. 

By  the  Bishop  of  London  Commissary  Blair  was  sent  to 
Virginia  in  1685,  and  Dr.  Thomas  Bray  to  Maryland  in 
1700.  Dr.  Blair  established  the  College  of  William  and 
Mary,  and  Dr.  Bray  originated  two  societies  which  he  suc- 
ceeded by  great  energy  and  wisdom  in  establishing  before 
he  set  sail,  March,  1700,  for  America.  These  were  the 
Society  for  Promoting  Christian  Knowledge,  and  the 
Society  for  the  Propagation  of  the  Gospel  in  Foreign 
Parts. 

Dr.  Bray  enlisted  many  great  names  in  the  English 
Church,  both  of  the  laity  and  clergy  in  the  formation  of  the 
latter  Society,  which  was  to  supply  missionaries  to  Amer- 


36  ORIGIN    AND    HISTORY 

ica  and  many  other  parts  of  the  world.  It  was  duly  incor- 
porated and  held  its  first  meeting  in  June,  1701,  with  the 
Archbishop  of  Canterbury  as  President.  Bishops  Bever- 
idge,  Archbishops  Wake  and  Sharp,  Bishops  Gibson  and 
Berkeley,  who  were  some  of  its  distinguished  supporters, 
evoked  by  their  appeals  and  personal  influence  funds  from 
every  quarter.  It  was  time  to  reform  the  English  Colonies 
in  America,  in  which  Bishop  Berkeley  declared,  twenty- 
five  years  later,  there  was  but  little  sense  of  religion  and  a 
most  notorious  corruption  of  manners. 

There  were  in  all  North  America  but  50  clergy  and 
43,800  members  of  the  Church  of  England.  In  the  Prov- 
ince of  New  York  there  were  30,000  souls,  of  whom  about 
1,200  attended  church  and  450  were  communicants  at  the 
services. 

If  the  testimony  of  a  violent  opposer  of  the  Church  of 
England  as  to  the  state  of  the  Colonies  is  of  any  added 
value,  we  may  recall  what  Revd.  Cotton  Mather  said  of 
one  of  the  New  England  Colonies  in  1695,  ''a  Colluvies 
of  Antinomians,  Familists,  Anabaptists,  Anti-Sabbatarians, 
Armenians,  Socinians,  Quakers,  Ranters  and  everything 
but  Roman  Catholics  and  true  Christians,  bona  terra  mala 
gens,  a  good  land,  but  a  bad  lot." 

Such  were  the  conditions  to  which  the  missionaries  of 
the  Venerable  Society  addressed  themselves  at  the  begin- 
ning of  the  eighteenth  century.  They  were  fit  men  for 
self-denying  work.  Some  of  them  itinerated,  some  settled 
down  in  districts  and  established  missions  around  them, 
as  at  the  present  day. 

Six  of  these  missionaries  in  the  first  five  years  were  sent 
to  the  Province  of  New  York,  where  the  Legislature  had 
already  authorized  an  appointment  of  this  number  of  min- 


OF   GRACE    CHURCH  37 

isters.  New  York  was  selected  for  the  first  missions  at  the 
suggestion  of  Mr.  Vesey,  who  had  been  a  lay  reader  of 
services  in  Hempstead  in  1695,  and  had  gone  to  England 
for  ordination. 

Very  important  to  the  success  of  the  movement  had  been 
the  founding  of  Trinity  Church  in  New  York  City  in  1696. 
Its  endowment  by  Queen  Anne  with  the  Church  farm, 
which  was  composed  of  the  Annetje  Jans  and  the  Duke's. 
farm,  and  subsequently  became  of  such  immense  value  in 
the  heart  of  the  City  of  New  York,  was  the  stay  afterwards 
of  many  a  Church  of  England  organization  besides  the 
Churches  of  Queens  County,  Grace  Church  in  Jamaica, 
St.  George's  in  Flushing,  St.  James'  in  Newtown,  and  St. 
George's  of  Hempstead,  which  are  all  linked  with  the 
memory  of  its  benefactions  and  endowments. 

The  first  specific  local  appointment  by  the  Society  was 
made  to  Jamaica,  Long  Island,  March  20,  1702,  at  the 
written  request  of  prominent  churchmen  in  Jamaica,  en- 
dorsed by  others  in  New  York  City. 

Of  the  seven  men  who  came  to  Jamaica  and  other  towns 
from  the  Society  before  1 704,  Messrs.  Gordon,  Keith,  Bar- 
tow, Honeyman,  and  Urquehart,  McKenzie,  and  Muirson, 
Lord  Cornbury,  in  1705,  wrote  concerning  their  charac- 
ters and  labors:  'They  have  behaved  themselves  with  great 
zeal,  exemplary  piety  and  unwearied  diligence  in  discharge 
of  their  duty  in  their  several  parishes." 

Col.  Heathecote,  afterwards  the  most  distinguished  citi- 
zen of  New  York  as  Mayor,  Vestryman  of  Trinity  Church, 
Commander  of  the  Colonial  forces,  and  Receiver  General 
of  the  Customs  in  North  America,  reported  the  same  year 
to  the  Society: 


38  ORIGIN    AND    HISTORY 

"I  must  do  all  the  gentlemen  that  justice,  which  you 
have  sent  to  this  province,  as  to  declare  that  a  better  clergy 
were  never  in  any  place,  there  being  not  one  among  them 
that  has  the  least  blame  or  blemish  as  to  his  life  or  con- 
versation." 

The  Church  was  rooted  strongly  in  the  places  where  it 
had  been  planned  by  the  Society,  but  so  great  was  the  op- 
position, political  and  sectarian,  to  her  progress  that  even 
as  late  as  1745,  New  York  Colony  had  but  22  Episcopal 
Churches,  while  there  was  but  one  Episcopal  Church  in 
Boston  and  one  in  Philadelphia. 

Yet  the  missionaries  of  the  Society  sought  in  an  orderly 
way  to  establish  and  uphold  a  conservative  piety.  There 
was  a  convention  of  the  Anglican  Church  in  New  York, 
about  1705,  which  was  called  by  Governor  Nichols  of  Vir- 
ginia at  the  request  of  Dr.  Bray,  Commissary.  It  was 
composed  of  seven  ministers  only;  one  of  them,  Rev.  John 
Bartow,  represented  Queens  County.  The  convention 
was  continued  in  session  for  a  week,  and  devised  measures 
for  the  extension  of  the  Gospel  by  Episcopal  services.  It 
was  proposed  that  a  Suffragan  Bishop  be  sent  out  from 
England,  and  the  convention  prepared  and  sent  to  England 
a  statement  of  the  necessity  of  this  measure.  The  Lord 
Bishop  of  London,  in  1707,  wrote  in  approval,  giving  his 
reasons  for  the  appointment  of  a  Suffragan  instead  of  an 
absolute  Bishop.  But  this  wise  proposal  from  America 
was  treated  with  indift'erence  by  those  in  political  power, 
who  only  could  put  in  effect  the  action  of  the  Church 
authorities. 

There  was,  however,  an  increased  interest  manifested 
after  the  convention  by  the  churchmen  of  New  York. 
Robert   Livingstone,   in    1703,  sent   a  memorial  to  the 


OF   GRACE    CHURCH  39 

Society,  asking  for  the  appointment  of  six  men  of  youth, 
learning  and  orthodoxy  to  go  as  missionaries  to  the  Indians 
of  New  York,  one  to  each  of  the  Five  Nations,  and  one  to 
the  River  Indians. 

They  took  forethought  also  for  education.  It  was  pro- 
posed in  1703  to  found  a  College.  Col.  Morris,  Col. 
Heathecote,  and  Governor  Cornbury  were  much  inter- 
ested in  the  subject,  and  proposed  that  the  farm  of  32 
acres  belonging  to  Trinity  Church,  which  rented  for  only 
£36  per  annum,  be  granted  to  the  Society  for  this  purpose. 
This  movement  culminated  afterward  in  the  founding  of 
Kings,  now  Columbia  University. 

The  opposition  to  the  Church  of  England  culminated  in 
Connecticut,  when  the  standard  works  on  English  services 
were  sent  over  by  the  Society  for  the  Propagation  of  Chris- 
tian Knowledge  to  that  Colony. 

Eight  hundred  volumes  of  these  works  were  there  dis- 
tributed. They  awakened  the  students  and  officers  of  the 
only  College  in  that  Colony.  They  were  eagerly  read  by 
the  students  of  Yale.  The  President,  Dr.  Cutler,  two  of 
the  tutors,  Messrs.  Johnson  and  Brown,  in  consequence 
of  this  enlightenment,  abandoned  their  support  from  the 
College  and  sought  ordination  in  England. 


40  ORIGIN    AND    HISTORY 


CHAPTER  IV. 

The  Mission  of  the  Reverend  Patrick  Gordon  to  Grace 

Church. 

The  names  of  two  clergymen  who  applied  to  the  Society 
for  the  Propagation  of  the  Gospel  for  appointment  to  the 
missionary  work  in  America  at  the  meeting  in  London  on 
March  20,  1702,  were  George  Keith  and  Patrick  Gordon. 

Before  the  Society  proceeded  to  appoint  missionaries  to 
particular  places  they  resolved  'Ho  send  a  travelling  mis- 
sionary or  preacher  who  should  travel  over  and  preach  in 
the  several  governments  on  the  Continents  of  British 
America."  By  this  means  they  hoped  they  should  awaken 
the  people  into  a  sense  of  the  duties  of  religion.  Rev. 
George  Keith,  who  had  formerly  resided  in  Pennsylvania, 
was  selected  to  be  the  itinerant  missionary  through  the 
continent  with  a  yearly  allowance  of  £200.  Dr.  Bray  re- 
ported that  the  Lord  Bishop  of  London  had  appointed  Mr. 
Patrick  Gordon  a  missionary  to  New  York,  and  the  Society 
resolved  "to  make  up  the  Queen's  Bounty  money  £5o  per 
annum,  the  first  year  and  continue  the  same  or  more  yearly 
as  they  shall  see  fitt  according  to  the  good  behavior  of  the 
said  Mr.  Gordon."  At  the  same  meeting  it  was  proposed, 
after  this  action  upon  Mr.  Gordon's  appointment  by  the 
Bishop  of  London,  to  send  another  missionary,  Mr.  John 
Forsseeil,  to  Staten  Island. 

At  their  next  meeting,  March  27,  1702,  it  was  ordered 
that  the  Treasurers  ''do  pay  to  Mr.  Gordon  the  summ  of 
£30,  by  way  of  advance  out  of  his  allowance  from  this 
Society." 


OF   GRACE   CHURCH  41 

So  far  the  effort  of  this  Scotch  clergyman  to  accomplish 
a  purpose  worthy  of  his  devotion  seemed  successful.  But 
in  the  Society's  records  of  a  meeting  three  weeks  after, 
April  1 7th,  it  is  stated  that  a  letter  from  Mr.  Gordon  was 
read.  It  is  found  in  the  volume  of  Letters  of  the  S.  P.  G., 
Vol.  I,  III,  April  17,  1702,  and  throws  much  light  on  a 
character  of  which  little  has  been  known. 

"Very  Reverend : 

I  am  sorry  to  tell  you  that  my  voyage  is  to  be  marred  at  last, 
the  York  money  is  not  to  come.  It  is  true  Dr.  Fall  expects  it 
every  Post  and  it  may  possibly  be  a  month  before  it  comes.  Had  I 
not  depended  on  it,  I  might  have  had  money  elsewhere,  which  I 
cannot  now.  Most  certain  it  is,  I  can't  go  without  it,  and  if  it  is 
not  advanced  by  you  (or)  a  member  of  the  Corporation,  I  must 
give  security  for  the  two  pounds  already  received,  and  lay  aside 
thoughts  of  New  York  notwithstanding  great  charges  already  in 
fitting  out  and  the  small  loss  of  time.  I  therefore  desire  that  you'l 
lay  this  matter  before  the  corporation,  upon  hearing  of  which  I  am 
persuaded  they'l  empower  one  of  their  number  to  make  a  present 
advance. 

"I  might  likewise  complain  of  the  Dilatory  methods  that  are 
taken  in  advancing  the  Queens  Bounty,  notwithstanding  I  gott  my 
Lord  of  London's  letter  to  Mr.  Sturt,  and  though  he  doubts  of 
the  money  after  the  coronation,  yet  he  gives  me  but  small  hopes  of 
advancing  it  sometime  next  week.  It  is  six  to  one  if  he  does  it, 
notwithstanding  I  have  offered  him  a  fair  consideration.  This  is 
the  melancholy  prospect  of  my  affairs.  It  lyes  in  the  breast  of  the 
corporation  to  give  them  another  face,  and  I  hope  they  will  do  it. 
I'll  wait  for  you  at  St.  Cecilia's  Coffee  House,  where  I  shall  be 
glad  to  see  you  as  soon  as  the  meeting  is  over. 

P.  Gordon. 
To  the  Very  Reverend  Dr.  Bray. 


42  ORIGIN    AND    HISTORY 

After  hearing  this  letter  the  Society  "ordered"  that  the 
said  Mr.  Gordon  "do  immediately  attend  the  Society." 

Mr.  Gordon  was  called  in  and  heard  as  to  the  subject  of 
the  letter  and  then  withdrew.  The  Society  then  took  ac- 
tion and  resolved  "that  forasmuch  as  it  does  appear  to  this 
Society  that  the  said  Mr.  Gordon  is  in  danger  of  losing  his 
passage  to  the  West  Indies  for  want  of  twenty  pounds,  the 
Queen's  Bounty  money,  as  also  of  fifty  pounds  more 
which  was  to  have  been  advanced  to  him  on  account  of  his 
voyage  by  some  gentlemen  at  York,  this  Society  for  the 
aforesaid  reasons  will  immediately  pay  him  the  said  sum 
of  fifty  pounds  on  condition  that  the  said  Mr.  Gordon  do 
first  procure  sufficient  security,  that  the  said  summe  of 
fifty  pounds  shall  be  repaid  within  2  months  after  the  loan 
of  it.  And  it  is  hereby  further  declared  that  a  promise 
from  his  Grace,  the  Lord  Archbishop  of  York,  for  the 
speedy  payment  of  the  same  shall  be  understood  to  be 
sufficient  security.  The  Committee  reported  also  on  Mr. 
Gordon's  request  that  he  might  be  furnished  with  books, 
and  it  was  ordered  that  the  summe  of  ten  pounds  be 
allowed  the  said  Mr,  Gordon,  to  be  laid  out  in  such  books 
as  are  proper  for  him  on  this  occasion."* 

The  first  meeting  of  the  Society  after  receiving  the 
Royal  Charter  from  King  William  III  was  held  on  Friday, 
June  27,  1701,  in  the  library  of  the  Archbishop  of  York. 
The  Bishops  of  London,  the  Bishop  of  Bangor,  the  Bishop 
of  Chichester  and  the  Bishop  of  Gloucester,  with  noted 
clergymen  and  laymen,  among  whom  are  named  Dr. 
White  Kennett,  afterwards  Bishop  of  Peterborough;  Dr. 
Stanhope,  Dr.  Bray,  Sir  John  Chardin,  Sir  Richard  Black- 


'Original  Records  of  the  S.  P.  G.,  in  London. 


OF   GRACE    CHURCH  43 

more,  Sir  George  Wheeler  and  Sergeant  Hook.  Mr.  Mel- 
moth  and  Mr.  Hodges  were  appointed  Treasurers  and  Mr. 
John  Chamberlane  Secretary.  Every  month  distinguished 
men  were  elected  into  the  Society,  and  they  became  active 
in  soliciting  subscriptions  to  aid  the  Society's  objects, 
especially  from  eminent  bankers  of  the  city  of  London, 
who  traded  in  the  plantations  of  North  America. 

Meetings  were  held  every  month,  and  on  the  I9th  of 
September,  1701,  a  memorial  was  read  from  Col.  Morris 
on  the  sad  state  of  religion  in  the  Colonies  of  New  York, 
New  Jersey  and  Pennsylvania. 

A  similar  account  by  Col.  Dudley,  Governor  of  New 
England,  of  the  EngHsh  plantations  of  North  America  was 
presented  and  read.  In  this  it  was  stated  that  in  New 
York  there  were  25,000  souls  in  twenty-five  towns,  in 
which  there  were  about  five  Church  of  England  ministers 
in  fifteen  English  towns.  Whatever  others  were  to  be 
found  were  Dutch  and  English  Dissenters. 

Mr.  George  Keith  gave  an  account  of  the  state  of 
Quakerdom  in  North  America,  and  described  the  qualifi- 
cations that  a  North  American  missionary  should  possess, 
who  should  be  sent  out  by  the  Society  in  the  first  year  of 
its  existence. 

''Such  as  go  over  into  those  parts  for  the  propagation  of 
the  Gospel  should  be  men  of  solidity  and  good  experience, 
as  well  as  otherwise  qualified  with  good  learning,  and  good 
natural  parts,  and  especially  exemplary  in  piety,  and  of  a 
discreet  zeal,  humble  and  meek,  able  to  endure  the  toil 
and  fatigue  they  must  expect  to  go  through,  both  in  mind 
and  body,  not  raw  young  men,  nor  yet  very  old,  whose 
Godly  zeal  to  propagate  true  Christianity  in  life  should 


44  ORIGIN    AND    HISTORY 

be  the  great  motive;  for  people  generally  of  those  parts 
are  very  sharp  and  observant,  to  notice  both  what  is  good 
or  bad  in  those  who  converse  among  them." 

As  it  took  three  months  to  make  the  voyage  to  England, 
it  could  not  have  been  long  after  this,  that  the  Society 
received  the  petition  of  the  Church  of  England  people  in 
Jamaica,  for  a  missionary,  and  his  support.  Col.  Morris 
writes  that  Mr.  Gordon  received  the  invitation  of  some  of 
the  best  men  in  his  parish  to  go  there,  and  the  Society  had, 
at  his  appointment,  specially  designated  him  as  missionary 
to  Nassau  Island,  the  eastern  part  of  which  was  occupied 
by  the  townships  of  Jamaica,  Flushing  and  Newtown, 
from  which  the  call  for  a  missionary  had  come  to  the 
Society. 

That  Mr.  Gordon  was  a  man  of  such  traits  of  character 
and  piety  and  devotion  as  was  indicated  in  the  advice  of 
Mr.  Keith  to  them  as  to  their  appointees,  is  a  reasonable 
inference  beside  the  testimony  of  Col.  Morris,  which  was 
founded  on  personal  acquaintance  with  him,  a  few  weeks 
after  Mr.  Gordon's  appointment. 

It  has  not  been  possible  so  far  to  trace  in  any  of  the 
Society's  records  the  personal  history  of  Mr.  Gordon.  In 
his  letter  to  Mr.  John  Chamberlane,  Secretary,  he  writes 
that  "the  person  whom  I  expect  will  bring  you  this  is  my 
elder  brother,  lately  come  up  from  Scotland,  and  it's  prob- 
able may  make  some  stay  in  England.  I  take  this  oppor- 
tunity to  introduce  him  to  the  benefitt  of  your  acquaint- 
ance. My  service  to  your  father  and  all  other  good 
friends."  This  letter  not  only  shows  his  relatives  were 
resident  in  Scotland,  but  that  Mr.  Gordon  had  considerable 
acquaintance  and  experience  in  England,  in  a  ministry 


OF   GRACE    CHURCH  45 

from  which  he  proceeded  to  the  new  field  for  which  he  was 
thought  to  be  eminently  fitted. 

Mr.  Gordon  was  delayed  only  a  month  longer  in  Eng- 
land. He  was  able  to  join  a  notable  company  that  took 
passage  with  him  on  the  ship  Centurion,  which  sailed  on 
April  23,  1702,  from  England,  bound  to  Boston.  Col. 
Morris  and  Col.  Dudley  were  shipmates,  and  Rev.  George 
Keith,  who  had  started  on  his  mission  at  large  for  the 
Society  among  the  American  Colonies.  Rev.  John  Talbot 
was  chaplain  of  the  ship. 

The  letters  to  the  Society  written  by  these  gentlemen, 
after  their  arrival,  are  preserved  in  the  annals  of  the 
Society.  Those  of  Mr.  Gordon  and  Colonel  Morris  are 
specially  valuable  as  giving  us  an  insight  into  the  character 
of  Mr.  Gordon,  in  these  last  months  of  his  life.  Mr.  Gor- 
don's has  not  before  been  published.  It  was  found  in 
Vol.  I,  No.  XI,  of  the  manuscript  letters. 

Mr.  Patrick  Gordon  to  the  Secretary: 

Boston,  New  England,  13  June,  1702. 
Worthy  Sir: 

This  comes  to  acquaint  you  of  our  safe  arrival  in  this  place. 
We  had,  blessed  be  God,  an  excellent  passage  being  only  five 
weeks  from  land  to  land,  and  above  half  that  time  either  contrary 
winds  or  calms.  Had  the  time  of  our  passage  been  as  many  months 
as  weeks,  I  might  have  reckoned  it  short,  being  so  happy  in  the 
good  company  I  came  with.  Thanks  to  Heaven  we  enjoyed  per- 
fect health  all  the  way  except  sea  sickness,  to  which  that  worthy 
gentleman.  Governor  Dudley,  and  my  fellow  travellers,  Col.  Morris, 
were  somewhat  subject,  during  anything  of  rough  weather.  Honest 
Mr.  Keith  held  out  to  a  miracle  and  as  for  myself,  I  am  a  thorough 
paced  seaman.  Col.  Morris,  Mr.  Keith  and  I  do,  (God  willing) 
intend  to  sett  out  for  Rhode  Island  a  few  days  hence,  providing 
that  we  find  no  vessel  here  that  is  shortly  bound  for  New  York. 


46  ORIGIN    AND    HISTORY 

The  ship  that  brings  this  letter  to  old  England  falls  down  from 
this  place  this  forenoon,  and  therefore  I  have  only  time  to  tell  you 
that  Mr.  Keith  has  found  a  very  worthy  Gentleman,  Chaplain  of 
the  Centurion,  to  accompany  him  on  his  mission.  The  Gentleman's 
name  is  George  Talbot,  M.  A.,  a  person  of  very  good  parts  and  no 
worse  man.  I  have  personally  known  him  for  some  years  and  can 
warrant  what  I  say     *     *     * 

I  beg  the  prayers  of  the  Corporation  and  am,  worthy  sir, 

Your  \^ery  Humble  Servant, 

P.  Gordon. 

(Letter,  Vol.  I,  No.  XI.) 

Of  this  voyage  Mr.  George  Keith  writes,  more  in  detail, 
under  nearly  the  same  date,  to  the  Secretary. 

Boston,  12  June,  1702. 
Worthy  Sir: 

After  signifying  my  christian  respects  to  yourself  this  is  to  ac- 
quaint you  with  our  good  passage  and  safe  arrival  in  Boston  in 
New  England  the  nth  of  this  instant,  having  been  but  six  weeks 
between  our  sailing  from  Cowes  and  our  arrival  at  Marblehead.  a 
good  harbor  about  20  miles  from  Boston.  Our  worthy  friend. 
Governor  Dudley,  is  well  and  I  heard  him  say  he  never  had  a  more 
comfortable  passage.  He  was  so  very  civil  and  kind  to  Mr.  Gordon 
and  me  that  he  caused  us  both  to  eat  at  his  table  all  the  voyage, 
and  his  conversation  was  both  pleasant  and  instructive,  insomuch 
that  the  great  cabin  of  the  ship  was  like  a  Colledge  for  good  dis- 
course both  in  matters  theological  and  philosophical,  and  very  cor- 
dially he  joined  with  us  daily  in  divine  worship  and  I  well  under- 
stand that  he  purposeth  to  give  all  possible  encouragement  to  the 
congregation  of  the  Church  of  England  in  this  place. 

Also  Col.  Morris  was  very  civil  and  kind  to  us,  and  so  was  the 
Captain  of  the  ship  called  the  Centurion,  and  all  the  inferior  offi- 
cers and  all  the  mariners  generally,  and  good  order  was  kept  in 


OF   GRACE    CHURCH  47 

the  ship The  seamen  as  well  as  officers  joined  devoutly  with 

us  in  our  daily  prayers  according  to  the  Church  of  England  and  so 
did  the  other  gentlemen  that  were  passengers  with  us. 

GEORGE  KEITH. 

The  Commencement  at  Cambridge  was  near  at  hand, 
and  Col.  Morris  induced  Mr.  Keith  to  remain  in  Boston 
before  he  began  his  travels  westward  with  Mr.  Talbot,  who 
was  appointed  his  associate  and  assistant  Sept.  18,  1702, 
as  recommended  to  the  Society  by  Mr.  Gordon.  While 
Mr.  Keith  entered  into  the  controversies  which  arose  be- 
tween him  and  the  Quakers  with  whom  he  had  previously 
been  connected,  Mr.  Gordon  went  on  to  New  York,  where 
he  met  the  Rev.  Mr.  Vesey  of  Trinity  Church,  and  from 
there  came  to  Long  Island  and  to  Jamaica,  in  accordance 
with  his  appointment. 

The  Rev.  Mr.  Keith  reported  to  the  Society  on  Nov.  29, 
1702,  that  ''many  have  been  visited  with  great  distempers 
in  diverse  parts  which  have  proved  mortal  to  many  in  the 
town  of  New  York,  where  near  500  persons  died  in  the 
space  of  three  months,  but  now,  thanks  to  God,  the  place 
is  very  healthful." 

The  same  month  the  town  of  Boston  was  reported  to 
Mr.  Keith  to  be  'Very  sickly  both  of  fevers  and  small  pox, 
of  both  of  which  distempers  many  die." 

Mr.  Gordon  arrived  in  Boston  in  perfect  health,  as  his 
correspondence  indicates.  It  was  either  there  or  in  New 
York  that  he  was  seized  with  the  prevailing  fever,  which 
developed  immediately  on  his  arrival  in  Jamaica.  He 
was,  however,  preparing  to  meet  his  people  on  the  Sunday 
that  followed  his  untimely  death  July  28,  1702.  He  had 
made  a  happy  impression  on  those  for  whom  he  had  left 


48  ORIGIN    AND    HISTORY 

England,  and  was  also  fully  prepared  to  minister  in  the 
offices  of  the  Church  of  England,  as  the  first  missionary 
of  the  Society  to  New  York. 

There  are  no  records  preserved  of  his  last  days,  or  of  the 
sickness  that  ended  his  labors  as  a  faithful  and  devoted 
servant  of  Jesus  Christ. 

Happily  for  his  memory,  and  the  honor  due  to  him  for 
what  he  so  zealously  attempted  for  the  people  of  Jamaica, 
a  letter  is  preserved,  written  by  Col.  Lewis  Morris  of  East 
Jersey  to  Mr.  Archdeacon  Beveridge,  a  month  after  his 
decease. 

(From  "Annals  of  the  Society,"  Vol.  I,  Letter  XLV.) 

East  Jersey,  3  September,  1702. 
Reverend  Sir: 

Mr.  Gordon's  abilities,  sobriety  and  Prudence  which  gained  him 
the  good  opinion  of  everybody  acquainted  with  him,  both  of  the 
Church  and  among  the  dissenters,  gave  me  great  hopes  I  should 
be  able  to  transmit  your  reverence  an  account  of  the  great  progress 
he  had  made  in  his  mission,  but  God  who  disposeth  things  wisely 
and  best  was  pleased  to  take  him  away  just  as  he  was  entering  upon 
his  charge. 

He  went  from  New  York  with  design  to  preach  in  his  Parish, 
(at  the  invitation  of  some  of  the  best  men  in  it),  took  sick  the  day 
before  he  designed  to  preach  and  so  continued  till  his  death,  which 
was  in  about  eight  days  after. 

He  was  partly  by  force  buried  in  a  Dissenting  Meeting  House 
newly  erected  at  Jamaica,  the  chief 'town  of  his  parish.  The  people 
are  very  numerous  there  and  some  of  them  tainted  with  Independ- 
ency, but  most  of  them  fitt  to  receive  any  impression.  If  there  is 
any  good  to  be  done  here  it  must  be  by  men  of  Learning,  Sobriety 
and  Prudence  and  not  young,  and  to  give  good  encouragement  to 
such  is  cheap,  for  others  will  not  serve  but  disserve  the  Church. 


OF   GRACE    CHURCH  49 

(Mr.  Gordon  was  laid  under  the  communion  table  in  the  Stone 
Church,  July  28,  1702.  When  the  building  was  taken  down  in  1813, 
the  ground  underneath  was  thoroughly  dug  over,  especially  in  front 
of  the  pulpit,  and  the  remains  of  those  who  had  been  buried  there 
were  carefully  gathered  up,  reverently  placed  in  a  box,  and  borne 
in  a  procession,  headed  by  Jeffrey  Smith,  the  Sexton,  to  the  Village 
Cemetery,  where  they  were  re-interred.  No  stone  marks  the  spot. 
— H.  Onderdonk.) 

By  the  papers  filed  in  the  administration  of  his  estate,  he 
is  named  as  ''late  Chaplain  of  the  Royal  Navy"  in  the 
Province  of  New  York.  The  inventory  including  bills 
and  drafts  amounted  to  £375,  12s.,  4d.  A  long  list  of  his 
books,  by  their  titles,  is  also  filed  in  the  Surrogate's  office. 
New  York. 

As  administration  papers  were  also  given  to  his  brother, 
James  Gordon,  in  England,  by  the  Archbishop  of  Canter- 
bury, his  personal  effects,  of  which  no  trace  is  known,  were 
probably  returned  to  England.  They  constituted,  as  enu- 
merated, a  complete  outfit  for  a  gentleman  and  clergyman 
of  moderate  means. 


50  ORIGIN    AND    HISTORY 


CHAPTER  V. 

The  Beginning  of  Controversy — Temporary  Ministries  of 

Messrs.  Bartow  and  Honeyman — The  Rectorship  of 

Rev.  Mr.  Urquhart. 

Fifty  of  the  churchmen  of  Jamaica  and  vicinity  sent  a 
petition  to  Lord  Cornbury  to  fill  the  vacancy  occasioned 
by  his  death,  and  the  Rev.  Mr.  Vesey  of  Trinity  Church 
was  directed  by  the  Governor  to  supply  them  with  a  suit- 
able minister  until  one  should  be  sent  by  the  Society  in 
England. 

Lord  Cornbury  at  this  time  made  a  temporary  residence 
in  Jamaica,  on  account  of  the  prevailing  fever  in  New 
York.  He  summoned  the  vestry  into  council  with  him 
there. 

Meanwhile  the  Rev.  John  Bartow  had  been  appointed, 
April  2,  1702,  a  missionary  of  the  Society  at  a  salary  of 
£50.  Sailing  from  Portsmouth,  England,  he  arrived  in 
New  York  Sept.  29,  1702,  after  a  voyage  of  eleven  weeks. 
He  came  to  Jamaica  to  present  his  credentials  to  Lord 
Cornbury.  He  was  assigned  to  West  Chester  as  his  field 
of  labor,  but  preached  all  the  next  summer  at  Jamaica,  at 
his  own  charge  and  expense,  alternating  with  West 
Chester.  Mr.  Bartow  had  been  highly  recommended  to 
the  Venerable  Society,  having  been  Vicar  of  Pamperford, 
Cambridge,  and  assistant  in  the  Parishes  of  Lynton  and 
Hadstock,  England. 


OF   GRACE   CHURCH  5l 

There  was,  on  the  first  Sunday  of  Mr.  Bartow's  officiating 
at  Jamaica,  a  serious  disturbance  and  wrangle  over  the  use 
and  possession  of  the  Stone  Church.  The  Reverend  Mr. 
Hubbard,  a  Presbyterian  minister,  held  service  in  the  morn- 
ing and  excluded  Mr.  Bartow.  In  the  afternoon,  while  the 
Episcopal  service  was  in  progress,  the  Presbyterians  inter- 
rupted it  and  drew  away  part  of  the  congregation  to  a 
meeting  out  doors.  Mr.  Bartow,  however,  finished  the 
service  and  delivered  the  key  to  the  Sheriff.  An  appeal 
to  Lord  Cornbury  decided  it  to  belong  to  the  established 
church  of  the  Colony,  having  been  built  by  public  tax,  and 
he  summoned  Mr.  Hubbard  and  the  head  of  the  faction 
before  him,  and  forbade  him  ever  more  to  preach  in  that 
church.  He  also  threatened  them  all  with  the  penalty  of 
the  statute  for  "  disturbing  divine  service,"  but  upon  their 
submission  and  promise  of  future  quietness  and  peace,  he 
pardoned  the  offense. 

This  was  the  beginning  of  the  controversy  the  develop- 
ment of  which  embittered  the  three  following  ministries 
and  pastoral  relations  for  a  period  of  over  thirty  years. 

Rev.  James  Honeyman  was  commissioned  by  the  Bishop 
of  London  to  Jamaica,  the  Society  having  appointed  him 
while  a  Chaplain  in  the  Navy  to  serve  in  Jamaica.  He 
arrived  in  Boston  after  a  tedious  voyage,  and  found  that 
he  had  been  preceded  by  a  slanderous  charge,  from  which 
he  had  to  vindicate  himself  to  Governor  Cornbury.  He 
began  his  labors  in  Jamaica  after  many  trials  of  his  spirit, 
from  which  he  came  out  with  a  clear  conscience.  But  he 
found  in  Jamaica  a  church  building  which  was  so  far  from 
being  ornamental  that  he  says,  "We  have  not  those  neces- 
sarys  that  are  requisite  to  the  Daily  discharge  of  our 
offices,  namely,  neither  Bible  nor  Prayer  Book,  no  cloaths, 
neither  for  Pulpit  nor  Altar." 


52  ORIGIN    AND    HISTORY 

Yet  he  says,  'To  this  Parish  belong  two  other  towns, 
viz.,  New  Town  and  Flushing,  famous  for  being  stocked 
with  Quakers,  whither  I  intend  to  go  upon  their  meeting 
days  on  purpose  to  preach  Lectures  against  their  Errors." 

The  bitter  feeling  which  had  been  aroused  by  the  oppo- 
sition to  the  Rev.  Mr.  Bartow  when  the  church  building, 
erected  by  taxes  and  subscriptions,  had  been  occupied  by 
the  authority  of  Governor  Cornbury,  continued  against 
Mr.  Honeyman,  who,  supplying  the  church  under  the 
license  and  during  the  pleasure  of  Lord  Cornbury,  was' not 
able  to  remain  three  months  in  charge  of  these  missions. 

Rev.  Mr.  Honeyman  was  sent  to  New  England  and  took 
up  a  mission  in  Newport,  where  he  continued  to  reside  and 
gained  eminent  success  in  a  long  rectorship  of  forty-five 
years. 

He  was  one  of  the  first  to  urge  upon  the  Society  the  need 
of  a  Bishop  in  1709.  He  presented  a  memorial  to  Gover- 
nor Nicholson  in  1714,  on  the  religious  condition  of  Rhode 
Island,  the  Establishment  of  Schools,  and  a  proper  encour- 
agement to  the  Clergy  from  the  Civil  Government  where 
the  population  was  hostile  in  great  part  to  the  Church,  and 
he  sent  to  England  five  years  later  a  memorial  of  the 
frowns  and  discouragements  to  which  they  were  subjected 
by  the  Government,  when  there  was  "only  one  baptized 
Christian  in  their  whole  Legislature." 


'fe' 


He  sent  an  application  to  the  Society  for  the  establish- 
ment of  a  mission  in  Providence  in  1732,  where  he  had 
preached  to  such  great  numbers  that  they  had  to  adjourn 
to  the  fields,  and  ten  years  later  the  first  church  with  a 
missionary  from  the  Society  was  built  in  that  city.  This 
Priest,  the  Rev.  Mr.  Pigot,  became  the  adviser  and  helper 


OF    GRACE    CHURCH  53 

of  President  Johnson  and  other  professors  of  Yale  College 
when  they  turned  to  the  Church. 

There  was  much  activity  among  the  Churchmen  of  New 
York  and  vicinity  during  the  period  of  a  year  and  a  half 
which  preceded  the  ministry  of  Rev.  Mr.  Urquhart  at 
Jamaica,  who  was  inducted  July  27,  1704. 

A  convention  of  the  Anglican  Church  was  held  in  New 
York  in  1702.  It  was  composed  of  seven  members,  all  of 
whom  were  ministers  of  the  Society.  Grace  Church  was 
represented  in  this  convention  by  Rev.  John  Bartow.  The 
others  were  Reverends  John  Talbot,  George  Keith,  Alex- 
ander Innes,  Edmund  Mott,  Evan  Evans,  and  Mr.  Vesey 
of  Trinity  Church. 

They  continued  for  a  week  the  sessions,  where  measures 
for  the  extension  of  Episcopal  services  were  proposed  and 
discussed,  the  importance  of  which  was  remarkably  dem- 
onstrated in  subsequent  events.  It  was  proposed  that  a 
Suffragan  Bishop  be  sent  out  from  England.  A  forcible 
statement  of  this  was  made  and  sent  to  England,  the  effect 
of  which  was  weakened  by  political  conditions  then 
prevailing. 

The  necessity  of  educational  influences  to  strengthen  the 
Church  was  made  apparent,  and  the  duty  of  reaching  out 
to  the  Indian  peoples,  which  had  been  one  of  the  special 
objects  of  the  founding  of  the  Society  in  England.  A 
memorial  from  the  Churchmen  in  New  York  was  received 
in  1703  by  the  Society,  sent  by  Robert  Livingston,  Secre- 
tary of  Indian  affairs  in  the  Province  of  New  York,  asking 
for  the  appointment  of  six  men,  "of  youth,  learning  and 
orthodoxy  to  go  as  missionaries  to  the  Indians,  one  to  each 
of  the  four  nations  and  one  to  the  River  Indians,  with  two 


54  ORIGIN    AND    HISTORY 

young  attendants  to  learn  the  language  and  assist  in  the 
work,  and  that  a  house  should  be  built  for  each  minister 
at  each  of  the  Indian  castles." 

It  was  proposed  as  early  as  1703  to  found  a  College,  in 
which  Col.  Morris,  Col.  Heathcote  and  Gov.  Cornbury 
were  much  interested.  The  farm  of  32  acres,  belonging 
to  Trinity  Church,  and  which  rented  for  only  £35  per 
annum,  was  proposed  to  be  granted  to  the  Society  for  this 
purpose,  as  an  appropriate  foundation  for  the  College. 
This  was  the  Anneka  Jans  farm,  first  sold  to  Mr.  Lovelace 
in  1670  by  her  heirs,  which  was  nearly  thirty  years  before 
Trinity  Church  was  founded,  and  which,  on  Nov.  20, 
1705,  became  the  possession  of  Trinity  Church  in  fee  by 
royal  patent.  Fifty  years  after  this  movement  by  Church- 
men culminated  in  the  founding  of  Kings,  now  Columbia 
College. 

Governor  Cornbury,  on  Oct.  5,  1704,  addressed  the 
Episcopal  Clergy,  assembled  in  New  York,  on  the  subject 
of  education.  He  obtained  from  the  Council  the  enact- 
ment of  a  law  establishing  a  Latin  Free  School  which  was 
endowed  with  £50  per  annum. 

Rev.  Mr.  Keith  and  Rev.  Mr.  Talbot,  from  1702  to  1704, 
were  holding  services  in  New  York,  in  Flushing,  and 
Hempstead,  and  also  going  as  far  as  Philadelphia  in  one 
direction,  and  Newport,  Rhode  Island,  and  Boston  in  the 
other,  preparing  the  way  for  missionaries  who  were  being 
sent  out  by  the  Society.  It  was  at  this  time  in  December, 
1704,  that  Episcopal  services  were  permanently  estab- 
lished in  Hempstead  by  the  Rev.  John  Thomas,  a  mission- 
ary, about  the  time  that  Mr.  Urquhart  was  inducted  in  his 
work  at  Jamaica. 


OF   GRACE   CHURCH  55 

Rev.  William  Urquhart  was  appointed  by  the  Society  to 
the  uninviting  charge,  the  Church  of  England  in  Jamaica, 
Newtown  and  Flushmg,  when  these  communities,  espe- 
cially that  of  Jamaica,  were  torn  with  religious  jealousies 
and  strife.  The  Presbyterians  and  Independents  in  Jamaica 
were  contending  for  the  possession  of  the  church  building; 
and  the  vestrymen  were  mostly  of  the  hostile,  rather  than 
friendly  part  of  the  Churchmen  of  the  township.  The 
Dutch,  who  had  sympathized  with  and  aided  the  Church 
of  England  famJies,  were  organizing  a  church  of  their  own 
faith  in  Jamaica.  The  Quakers  and  Independents  of 
Newtown  and  Flushing  were  not  dominated  by  any  de- 
cided Christian  spirit,  but  had  fallen  into  loose  ways  of 
livmg.  There  were  but  very  few  staunch  Churchmen,  the 
rest  discredited  their  Church  preferences. 

It  was  fortunate  that  Mr.  Urquhart  was  vested  with  the 
authority  of  the  Governor  and  of  the  laws  of  the  Province, 
passed  in  1693  to  1699,  which  gave  the  Church  of  Eng- 
land a  preference  over  all  other  churches,  so  that  church 
property  erected  by  public  taxes  was  the  property  of  the 
Church  of  England.  This  is  plainly  stated  in  the  laws 
enacted  in  1784  by  which  such  preference  and  privileges 
were  abrogated,  abolished,  rescinded  and  made  void. 

The  constitution  of  1784  says:  "It  nevertheless  ordained 
that  nothing  in  this  constitution  should  be  construed  to 
affect  any  grant  made  by  the  King  or  his  predecessors,  or 
to  annul  any  charters  and  bodies  politic  made  by  him  or 
them  prior  to  Oct.  14,  1775." 

Mr.  Urquhart  was,  moreover,  a  Scotchman  and  a  Chap- 
lain of  the  Royal  Navy  before  he  came  to  America,  and 
was  fitted  by  sturdy  qualities  and  experience  to  deal  with 
the  contentious  spirit  and  claims  of  those  with  whom  he 


56  ORIGIN    AND    HISTORY 

came  to  abide.  He  had  to  maintain  his  parochial  rights, 
where  malice  instead  of  Christian  love  largely  prevailed. 
His  ministry  began  with  the  association  of  the  Church 
people  in  Jamaica,  Flushing  and  Newtown,  which  con- 
tinued from  the  year  1704  to  1797.  During  this  century 
in  which  they  represented  the  Church  of  England,  the 
three  churches,  Grace,  St.  Georges  and  St.  James,  received 
the  ministrations  and  guidance  of  five  rectors,  missionaries 
of  the  Society,  by  whom  chiefly  they  were  nourished  and 
developed. 

The  names  of  Urquhart,  Poyer,  Colgan,  Seabury  and 
Bloomer  stand  out  among  others,  conspicuous  for  their 
strength,  endurance,  duration  of  their  rectorships,  and 
their  ability  and  success  in  overcoming  and  harmonizing 
the  discordant  elements  in  their  parishes. 

Mr.  Urquhart  found  in  Jamaica  a  tolerably  good  church 
of  stone  standing  in  the  highway  near  the  junction  of  what 
are  now  Jamaica  and  Union  Avenues.  Its  furnishing  was 
a  book  of  Common  Prayer  and  a  cushion  on  the  reading 
desk. 

The  Church  erected  in  1699  stood  in  the  middle  of  the 
main  street,  at  the  head  of  Union  Hall  Street,  which  was 
then  and  long  afterwards  called  Meeting  House  Lane. 
This  building  was  taken  down  in  1813,  when  the  Presby- 
terian Church  was  built  a  short  distance  from  it,  to  the 
northwest.  After  the  War  of  the  Revolution  it  was  used 
as  a  Court  House.  The  pulpit  was  on  the  north  side  with 
a  sounding-board  above  it,  and  was  opposite  the  gallery. 
There  was  no  stove  in  the  building.  The  women  kept 
their  hands  and  feet  warm  by  portable  stoves.  The  min- 
ister had  gown  and  bands;  the  women  sat  in  scarlet  cloaks 
on  chairs  along  the  wide  aisle,  and  on  the  sanded  floors. 


OF   GRACE    CHURCH  57 

There  was  a  house  for  the  minister  with  an  orchard  on  a 
glebe  containing  two  hundred  acres.  From  this  with  the 
stipend  of  the  Society,  contributed  by  the  Yorkshire  clergy, 
which  was  £5o,  and  £15  for  books,  he  had  to  gain  his  sup- 
port; for  the  parish  revenues  were  mostly  withheld  from 
him  by  the  contending  vestrymen.  In  Newtown  there 
was  a  chapel,  and  there  was  also  a  house  available  for  his 
use.  In  Flushing  most  of  the  inhabitants  were  Quakers 
of  a  roving  disposition.  In  all  three  places  he  found  only 
unlearned  men,  and  few  of  an  exemplary  life.  Mr.  Urqu- 
hart  made  his  parochial  residence  in  Jamaica,  preaching 
two  Sundays  there,  one  Sunday  in  Newtown,  and  in  Flush- 
ing, where  also  he  lectured  on  one  week  day  in  a  special 
effort  to  convert  the  people  from  their  errors  of  faith  and 
conduct. 

In  Jamaica  he  found  that  the  Wardens  and  Vestrymen 
would  not  qualify  themselves  according  to  law.  The 
Parish  was  made  up  of  Dissenters,  and  there  were  only 
twenty  communicants  in  a  place  numbering  2,000  inhabi- 
tants. The  Wardens  refused  to  provide  bread  and  wine 
for  the  Holy  Sacrament,  and  to  impose  or  submit  to  taxes 
for  the  minister's  maintenance:  Newtown  clamored  for  a 
minister  to  settle  among  them. 

Mr.  Urquhart,  finding  his  expenses  increasing,  joined 
himself  in  marriage  to  a  widow  in  Jamaica,  of  some  prop- 
erty, Mrs.  Mary  Whitehead  Burroughs,  and  endeavored  to 
defeat  those  who  would  starve  him  out.  He  had  the  hon- 
esty and  endurance  of  Scotch  blood  to  sustain  him;  he  was 
a  good  man  and  brave,  industrious  and  without  pretence 
or  display.  He  won  at  last  the  estimation  of  the  com- 
munity, and  his  congregations  in  the  three  communities 
increased,  even  if  his  trials  did  not  lessen.  Staunch  Church- 


58  ORIGIN    AND    HISTORY 

men,  Colonels  Heathcote  and  Morris,  gave  in  their  reports 
to  the  Society  the  strongest  testimony  to  his  Christian 
spirit  and  work. 

Mr.  Urquhart  bravely  maintained  in  the  face  of  bitter 
opposition  the  laws  of  the  Church  and  of  the  Colony.  As 
the  inhabitants  of  Queens  County  were  generally  Inde- 
pendents, and  kept  themselves  in  close  correspondence 
with  New  England,  from  which  they  had  come  to  Long 
Island,  they  resented  obligations  under  the  laws  of  Eng- 
land for  Church  establishment.  They  claimed  that  cor- 
porations residing  out  of  England  were  not  bound  to  her 
laws  of  civil  policy. 

Dissenting  ministers  from  New  England  preached  to 
them  resistance  to  the  public  taxes  by  act  of  the  General 
Assembly  of  New  York  in  1705.  Yet  at  that  time  there 
was  the  closest  relation  between  the  State  and  the  Puritan 
religion  in  Massachusetts  and  Connecticut,  where  vigor- 
ous enforcement  of  laws  excluded  any  but  the  ruling  sect 
from  political  affairs,  or  the  free  enjoyment  of  religion. 

Rev.  Mr.  Urquhart  died  Sept.,  1709,  without  having 
settled  this  controversy  by  his  remonstrances  and  argu- 
ments, which  were  justified  by  the  existing  laws.  He  left 
his  family  in  straitened  circumstances,  as  the  effect  not 
only  of  his  native  hospitality,  but  of  those  persecutions  and 
losses  to  which  he  was  subjected  by  the  withholding  of  his 
dues  from  the  people,  in  the  first  rectorship  they  were  priv- 
ileged to  have  through  the  beneficence  of  the  Missionary 
Society  of  the  English  Church. 

Col.  Heathcote  wrote  to  the  Society  Nov.  9,  1705:  "Mr. 
Urquhart,  minister  of  Jamaica,  has  the  most  difficult  task 
of  any  missionary  in  this  Government     *    *    *    j^^  j^^3 


OF   GRACE    CHURCH  59 

not  only  the  character  of  a  good  man,  but  of  being  extra- 
ordinarily industrious  in  the  discharge  of  his  duty,  he  has 
very  little  assistance  in  his  parish  except  from  those  who 
have  no  interest  with  the  people." 

Mr.  Urquhart's  reports  speak  of  success  in  the  conver- 
sion of  some  of  his  oppressors  to  close  communion  with 
the  Church;  of  the  prejudices  of  their  education,  as  a  mis- 
fortune to  him;  of  the  expenses  of  living,  making  the  sup- 
port of  the  Venerable  Society  the  chief  reliance  of  their 
missionaries. 

He  desired  in  his  will  that  no  great  pomp  or  formality 
be  used  at  ''my  funeral  and  that  none  except  my  wife  be 
put  in  morning;  that  no  rings,  gloves  or  scarfs  be  given," 
He  was  buried,  probably,  beside  Rev.  Mr.  Gordon,  in  front 
of  the  pulpit  of  the  church. 

At  the  time  that  his  ministry  ended  in  Jamaica,  the 
Colony  of  New  York  was  reputed  to  be  in  a  deplorable 
moral  condition.  So  greatly  had  increased  the  profanity, 
drunkenness  and  immorality  of  the  people  that  a  special 
enactment  was  made  by  the  Council  to  check  and  punish 
and  repress  the  prevailing  evils  of  society. 


60  ORIGIN    AND    HISTORY 


CHAPTER  VI. 

The  Ministry  of  Rev.  Thomas  Poyer,  1710-1732. 

Rev.  Thomas  Foyer's  ministry  to  the  Church  of  England 
churches  in  Jamaica,  Flushing  and  Newtown,  from  A.  D. 
1710  to  1732,  makes  a  chapter  of  grievances  and  perse- 
cutions, which  display  in  contrast  an  activity  and  zeal  for 
the  Church,  a  maintenance  of  her  rights,  an  unwearied 
patience  in  ignominy,  losses  and  sufferings,  and  an  un- 
tarnished Christian  character.  He  was  a  grandson  of  Col. 
Foyer,  who  heroically  defended  Pembroke  Castle,  in 
Cromwell's  time.  Mr.  Foyer  was  born  in  Wales.  He  was 
educated  at  Brasenose  College  in  the  University  of  Oxford. 
He  was  ordained  as  Deacon  by  the  Bishop  of  Worcester, 
June  9,  1706,  and  as  Priest,  by  the  Bishop  of  St.  Davids, 
on  Sept.  21,  1706.  He  was  a  Curate  at  Haverford  West, 
and  Chaplain  of  H.  M.  S.  Antelope,  Feb.  21,  1709.  He 
entered  the  service  of  the  Venerable  Society  Sept.  27, 
1709,  and  was  appointed  to  Jamaica,  Long  Island.  He 
embarked  with  his  family  and  household  goods,  Dec.  30, 
1709.  The  fleet  to  which  his  ship  belonged  was  delayed, 
passing  from  one  harbor  to  another,  and  after  a  stormy 
voyage  of  thirteen  weeks  his  ship.  His  Majesty's  Frigate 
Herbert,  was  wrecked  on  the  coast  of  Long  Island,  within 
one  hundred  miles  of  his  destined  parish.  There  was 
much  damage  done  to  his  household  goods  in  this  ship- 
wreck. Here  he  came  into  an  inheritance  which  no  one 
would  covet.  The  church  glebe  had  been  divided  up  by 
the  Vestrymen,  and  sold  in  lots  and  parcels  by  their 


The    Chalice    and    Paten    Presented    to    Grace    Church    by 

Queen   Anne's   Bounty. 

OiFERiNG  Plates  p.y  John  Tnour  and  the  Ladies'  Missionary 

Aid  Society. 


OF   GRACE    CHURCH  61 

usurped  authority.  His  rightful  parsonage  was,  through 
the  action  of  the  widow  of  Mr.  Urquhart,  in  possession  of 
the  family  of  a  dissenting  ministry,  and  he  was  excluded 
from  it  throughout  his  rectorship.  He  found  a  few  pro- 
fessed Churchmen  with  some  members  of  the  Dutch 
Church  and  a  few  other  disaffected  dissenters  in  his  con- 
gregation in  Jamaica,  and  from  fifty  to  one  hundred 
hearers  in  Newtown  and  Flushing. 

Although  these  churches  had  agreed  with  the  Society  on 
an  annual  stipend  of  £40,  for  six  years  he  received  no 
salary  from  them,  and  afterwards  he  could  collect  dues 
only  by  legal  suits  against  his  Vestrymen.  Yet,  according 
to  the  letters  of  Col.  Heathcote  to  the  Society,  Mr.  Foyer's 
parish  contained  8,000  souls  and  was  fifteen  miles  long 
and  six  and  a  half  miles  wide.  At  times  when  his  salary 
was  collected  by  a  constable,  he  encountered  a  riot.  Mr. 
Foyer  had  a  suit  at  law  against  tenants  of  his  parsonage 
lands  and  homestead,  which  the  jury  decided  against  him. 
Likewise  suits  for  salary  were  defeated  in  the  courts.  Mr. 
Foyer  was  therefore  obliged  to  live  on  the  £5o  per  year 
allowed  him  by  the  Society,  with  occasional  gifts  from  the 
same  source  in  his  greatest  needs. 

In  the  first  ten  years  he  is  proved  to  have  been  no  idle 
sufferer  in  the  labors  of  his  ministry,  nor  unworthy  of 
respect  and  confidence.  He  had  gathered  400  hearers  and 
sixty  communicants  in  seven  years.  His  adherents  testi- 
fied to  the  Society  that  he  had  strained  himself  in  travelling 
through  his  parish  even  beyond  his  strength,  giving  fre- 
quent lectures  and  catechisings  on  week  days;  but  even 
then  hospitality  was  denied  him  by  his  parishioners,  who 
tried  to  tire  him  out  by  their  ill  usage. 


62  ORIGIN    AND    HISTORY 

Nevertheless  Mr.  Poyer  sought  to  educate  the  community 
into  a  more  intelligent  and  kindly  spirit.  He  endeavored 
to  establish  a  free  school,  and  he  maintained  a  parochial 
library  for  his  people,  from  which  he  personally  gave  out 
books,  which  he  preserved  with  great  care.  He  freely  dis- 
tributed charities  from  the  sacramental  ofTerings  and  from 
his  own  scanty  funds.  His  wife,  Frances,  who  had  left 
England  with  him,  having  in  nine  years,  with  great  Chris- 
tian patience,  endured  the  loss  of  two  children^  and  her 
husband's  parochial  trials,  died,  leaving  two  other  children. 
Having  for  three  years  after  her  death,  with  other  minis- 
ters of  the  Society,  officiated  at  intervals  and  continuously 
for  one  year  at  Rye,  he  married,  near  the  close  of  his  ser- 
vices there,  the  widow  of  his  predecessor,  Mrs.  Elizabeth 
Bridge,  a  daughter  of  a  distinguished  New  England  family. 
After  her  death,  Mr.  Poyer  married  for  his  third  wife,  a 
daughter  of  a  wealthy  parishioner  of  Jamaica,  Justice 
Joseph  Oldfield.  Four  children,  Joseph,  Thomas,  John 
and  Sarah,  were  born  to  them,  and  by  this  wife's  inheri- 
tance, Mr.  Poyer  became  proprietor  of  fifty  acres  of  land 
in  the  village  of  Jamaica,  and  of  enough  other  property  to 
enable  him  to  dispense  Christian  hospitality  to  a  com- 
munity where  he  had  been  treated  with  neglect,  injustice 
and  contumely. 

Although  his  life  in  Jamaica  was  a  troubled  one,  he  main- 
tained his  charge  there,  when  inducements  were  frequently 
made  by  the  church  at  Rye,  and  by  offers  of  £400  and 
£500  salaries  in  the  West  Indies  to  leave  the  church  over 
which  he  was  thought  fit  to  be  appointed  in  so  much 
trouble. 

By  vote  of  a  majority  of  the  freeholders  of  Jamaica  in 
town  meeting  Feb.  21,  1726-7,  Mr.  Poyer  was  expelled 


OF   GRACE   CHURCH  63 

from  the  stone  church  and  their  action  confirmed  by  suit 
of  the  Presbyterians  to  whom  it  had  been  assigned  by  the 
same  town  meeting.  So  having  lost  parsonage  and  church, 
and  compelled  to  hold  services  in  the  County  Court  House, 
and  in  public  houses  at  his  own  expense  in  Flushing  and 
Newtown,  with  the  infirmities  of  age  prematurely  bearing 
him  down,  on  June  16,  1731,  he  asked  permission  of  the 
Venerable  Society  to  quit  his  mission  and  return  to  his 
native  land.  But  he  died  before  his  successor  could  be 
appointed,  having  fulfilled  a  ministry  of  twenty-five  years. 

Mr.  Foyer's  rectorship  of  the  three  Churches  was  effec- 
tive in  many  ways.  He  could  praise  God  that  the  Church 
was  in  a  fairer  way  of  flourishing  than  ever.  Through  his 
persistence  in  duty  her  sturdy  character  in  a  turbulent 
community  had  been  maintained.  His  ministrations, 
under  great  difficulties,  led  to  a  settlement,  however  un- 
justly, of  vexed  questions  at  law,  and  to  the  building  of 
a  Church  in  Jamaica  by  Churchmen  alone.  The  Churches 
in  Newtown  and  Flushing  had  been  held  steadfast,  and 
were  more  prosperous  than  in  Jamaica.  These  communi- 
ties had  become  weary  of  disputes  and  bitterness  which 
belied  their  Christian  character  and  hindered  their  influ- 
ence for  the  Kingdom  of  Christ.  They  were  prepared  to 
receive  a  new  rector  with  some  wholesome  regrets  that 
might  bear  fruits  unto  righteousness. 

Mr.  Foyer  says  of  his  ministry:  "I  have  labored  faith- 
fully in  my  Lord's  vineyard  and  in  my  private  advise  from 
house  to  house  as  well  as  public  discourses,  I  have  exhorted 
them  to  faith  in  Christ  and  amendment  of  life,  and  to  live 
in  love.  I  give  frequent  lectures  on  week  days;  many 
live  twelve  miles  distant,  and  I  must  keep  two  horses  which 
is  expensive  and  troublesome;  and  this  wears  out  more 
clothes  in  one  year  than  would  last  in  three  or  four,  if  I 


64  ORIGIN    AND    HISTORY 

did  not  have  to  ride.  In  Newtown  and  Flushing  there  is 
no  convenience  of  private  houses,  so  I  have  to  use  public 
ones  at  very  great  charge,  for  I  usually  bring  some  of  my 
family  with  me.  I  have  service  every  Lord's  day,  and  on 
the  days  set  apart  by  the  Church.  I  have  communion 
four  or  five  times  a  year  or  oftener,  as  I  have  health,  and 
seldom  have  over  forty  communicants  at  a  time.  I  cate- 
chise and  expound  the  catechism  to  all  such  as  are  sent  to 
me,  twice  a  week  in  the  Church,  and  once  a  fortnight  the 
year  round  at  my  house." 

Mr.  Foyer's  representations  to  the  Venerable  Society 
Nov.  9,  1722,  and  Oct.  16,  1724,  give  a  pathetic  summary 
of  his  afflictions: 

"\  was  so  as  to  have  little  hopes  of  recovery;  indeed  I 
have  been  in  poor  health  for  several  years  last  past;  *  *  * 
My  life  has  been  one  continued  scene  of  trouble;  kept  out 
of  my  allowance  from  the  County  for  years,  and  some  of 
it  lost;  a  great  deal  of  sickness  I  had  myself  and  in  my 
family,  seldom  all  of  us  being  in  health  at  the  same  time; 
I  have  buried  two  wives  and  two  children  in  less  than  five 
years;  and  am  now  eleven  in  family;  the  oldest,  (Daniel) 
a  little  over  sixteen;  my  house  rent  £16  per  year,  and  an 
expense  every  other  Sunday  of  taking  my  children  with 
me  to  Newtown  and  Flushing." 

June  7,  1731,  he  was  in  custody  of  the  Sheriff  for  a 
judgment  of  £42  obtained  against  him  by  Henry  Cuyler, 
merchant  of  New  York.  In  1724  he  was  cast  in  the  suit 
for  the  parsonage,  and  in  1728  he  was  deprived  of  the 
Church  and  had  to  preach  in  the  County  Court  House. 
Need  we  wonder  that  he  writes,  June  16,  1731,  that  the 
infirmities  of  age  bear  very  hard  on  him;  he  is  almost 
unable  to  officiate  and  prays  the  Venerable  Society  to  be 


OF   GRACE    CHURCH  65 

permitted  to  quit  this  mission  and  return  to  his  native  land. 
(Doc.  Hist.,  Ill,  310,  quoted  by  H.  Onderdonk.) 

Some  of  Mr.  Foyer's  sermons  have  been  preserved  in 
manuscript  carefully  and  neatly  written  in  a  fme  hand- 
writing and  with  notes  of  the  occasions  on  which  they 
were  composed  and  delivered.  They  indicate  a  wider 
activity  and  influence  than  of  his  predecessors  while  they 
were  at  Jamaica.  He  officiated  at  Trinity  Church,  New 
York,  while  Mr.  Vesey  went  to  England.  He  made  jour- 
neys once  or  twice  into  New  England. 

They  were  adapted  to  the  events  which  called  them 
forth,  showing  the  sympathy,  loyalty  and  courage  of  his 
mind  and  character.  A  list  of  these  relics  of  his  thought 
and  piety  was  made  by  Mr.  Henry  Onderdonk,  in  his  ''An- 
tiquities of  the  Farish  Church,  Jamaica,"  p.  39. 

On  December  13,  1731,  Mr.  Foyer  was  taken  ill  with  a 
prevailing  distemper  which  is  supposed  to  have  been  the 
small  pox.  He  made  his  will  with  much  difficulty  on  Jan. 
8,  1732,  being  unable  to  sign  his  name  in  full,  but  did  not 
die  until  a  week  after.    In  his  will  he  says: 

''I  give  my  soul  to  God:  my  body  to  be  Christianly 
buried,  in  certain  hopes  of  a  reunion  of  my  body  and  soul 
at  the  last  day,  and  of  eternal  life  through  the  merits  of 
Christ  my  Savior." 

To  his  wife,  Sarah,  and  her  heirs  he  bequeathed  his  es- 
tate, real  and  personal,  appointing  her  Executrix  with 
power  to  sell  such  part  as  she  pleased  for  the  payment  of 
his  debts  and  to  provide  for  the  maintenance  of  herself  and 
his  children,  distributing  to  them  his  estate  at  her  discretion. 

Mr.  Foyer  was  buried  on  the  north  side  of  the  village 
burying  ground,  but  no  stone  marks  his  grave  or  that  of 


66  ORIGIN    AND    HISTORY 

his  widow.    Two  wives  were  buried  under  the  Stone 
Church  while  he  was  in  possession. 

The  homestead  with  sixteen  acres  of  land  was  sold  to 
Mr.  Foyer's  successor.  His  wife  was  left  in  great  need 
when  the  estate  was  finally  settled,  and  subscriptions  in 
the  parish  were  given  for  her  support.     (Onderdonk.) 


OF   GRACE   CHURCH  (il 


CHAPTER  VII. 

The  Jamaica  Church  Controversy— A  Review  of  its  His- 
tory, Legal  Aspects,  and  Decisions. 

The  contention  of  the  missionaries  of  the  Society  in  New 
York,  as  well  as  the  Governors,  was  that  the  true  intent  of 
the  Act  of  the  Provincial  Assembly  in  1693,  which  con- 
tains the  words  ''Instituted  and  inducted  Church  Wardens 
and  Vestrymen,"  was  the  settlement  of  the  National  Min- 
istry according  to  the  laws  of  England. 

The  memorial  of  the  inhabitants  of  Jamaica  in  Queens 
County  to  Governor  Robert  Hunter  in  1710  claimed  that 
the  town  of  Jamaica  was  purchased  from  the  Indians  by 
their  predecessors  and  ancestors,  who  were  subjects  of  the 
realm  of  England  and  Protestant  Dissenters  in  the  man- 
ner of  worship  from  the  forms  used  in  the  Church  of 
England,  who  settled  and  improved  the  lands  and  called  a 
minister  of  their  own  to  officiate  among  them  and  several 
others  successively,  until  1673.  In  1676  the  townsmen 
set  apart  lands  for  the  encouragement  and  support  of  the 
minister;  in  1693  they  purchased  a  house  and  other  con- 
veniences for  the  accommodation  of  their  ministers.  In 
1699  they  erected  a  meeting  house  or  public  edifice  for  the 
worship  and  service  of  God  in  their  own  way,  an^  peace- 
ably possessed  and  used  it;  that  in  1703-4  they  were,  with 
force  and  violence,  without  any  trial  or  judgment  at  law, 
turned  out  and  dispossessed  of  the  same. 

The  original  settlers  of  Jamaica,  being  Dissenters  and 
mostly  Presbyterians,  for  a  few  years  had  their  own  way 


68  ORIGIN    AND    HISTORY 

in  all  public  matters,  and  conducted  the  affairs  of  the 
Church  organized  in  1662,  in  the  town  meetings. 

Col.  Morris,  who  was  a  Judge  and  later  Chief  Justice  of 
the  Province  of  New  York,  in  a  letter  to  the  Society,  Feb. 
20,  1711,  gives  the  history  of  the  building  of  the  first 
Church  in  America,  and  of  the  passage  of  the  two  acts  by 
which  the  Church  of  England,  through  her  ministers,  laid 
claim  to  the  Church  properties,  built  under  these  acts, 
which  were  passed  when  Governor  Fletcher  was  in  office. 

Col.  Morris  says:  "The  Church  was  built  and  a  Dissent- 
ing minister  called  and  if  I  mistake  not  paid,  the  other  Dis- 
senters who  were  forced  to  comply  were  very  much  dis- 
satisfied at  this  procedure  of  their  brethren,  and  many  of 
them  appeared  in  the  interest  of  the  Church;  thinking  no 
other  way  so  effectual  to  defeat  their  adversaries;  and  this 
was  the  beginning  of  the  Church  of  England  in  Jamaica 
on  Long  Island:  the  Church  and  parsonage  house  con- 
tinued in  the  possession  of  the  Dissenters  till  some  time 
after  the  arrival  of  Mr.  Urquhart,  when  a  representation 
was  made  to  my  Lord  Cornbury  that  the  Church  and  house 
being  built  by  Public  Act  could  belong  to  none  but  the 
Church  of  England.  My  Lord  upon  this  gives  his  warrant 
to  dispossess  the  Dissenters  which  immediately  (by  force), 
was  done  without  any  procedure  at  Law,  and  Mr.  Urqu- 
hart put  in  possession  of  them:  this  short  method  might  be 
of  some  service  to  the  Minister,  but  it  was  very  far  from  be- 
ing of  any  to  the  Church,  as  no  such  unaccountable  step 
ever  can  be.  Mr.  Urquhart  kept  the  possession  during  his 
life,  and  though  he  gained  not  many  converts,  yet  his  con- 
duct was  so  good  that  I  don't  think  he  lost  any." 

There  were  two  Acts  of  the  Provincial  Assembly  of  New 
York  in  the  years  1693  and  1695  in  which  "Church  Ward- 


OF   GRACE    CHURCH  69 

ens  and  Vestrymen"  were  mentioned  as  well  as  "institu- 
tion and  induction,"  plainly  referring  to  an  Episcopal 
Establishment  of  religion.  On  these  Acts,  being  the  latest 
legislation  on  the  subject  in  the  Province,  were  based  the 
present  demands  of  the  Missionaries  and  Churchmen  for 
the  rights  of  the  Church  of  England  ministry. 

These  included  the  possession  of  the  Church  building 
erected  by  taxes,  and  completed  under  an  Enabling  Act 
of  1699  and  private  contributions,  and  of  the  parsonage 
Hkewise  secured  by  public  assessments  and  vote  of  the 
town  meeting;  also  for  the  salary  raised  in  the  same  way 
from  the  parish. 

The  contention  of  the  Dissenters  was  that  the  Act  of 
1693,  as  its  own  language  proved,  did  not  establish  the 
Church  of  England  in  the  Province.  The  Legislature  of 
1695,  in  an  Act  for  better  explaining  the  Act  of  1693,  posi- 
tively declared  that  the  Vestry  and  Church  Wardens  had 
power  to  call  a  dissenting  minister  and  that  "he  is  to  be 
paid  and  maintained  as  the  law  directs." 

Governor  Fletcher,  however,  asserted  the  meaning  of 
the  law  to  be  what  was  contrary  to  the  declaration  of  the 
Assembly;  but  was  the  intention  of  the  Act. 

There  was  involved  in  the  Jamaica  troubles  the  rights 
of  the  English  Church  in  the  Colonies  of  Great  Britain. 

Rev.  John  Thomas,  the  first  missionary  of  the  Church 
of  England  settled  in  Hempstead,  Long  Island,  Dec.  26, 
1704,  wrote  of  it  to  the  Venerable  Society  in  England:  "I 
humbly  beg  leave,"  he  says,  "to  present  to  the  Venerable 
Society  the  ill  consequences  that  may  ensue  by  this  exam- 
ple, if  a  call  from  the  Dissenting  party  entitle  a  Dissenter 
to  be  Parish  minister  and  to  the  salary  of  the  parish,  then 


70  ORIGIN    AND    HISTORY 

upon  the  death  or  removal  of  the  present  incumbent,  the 
vacancies  in  most  parishes  will  be  filled  with  Dissenters,  so 
will  Dissention  sit  triumphant  on  the  throne  supported  by 
the  countenance  of  the  laws  of  the  Government." 

Later  on,  in  a  memorial  to  the  Society  by  eight  American 
rectors,  dated  Nov.  13,  1711,  it  was  stated  that  the  loss  of 
this  cause  would  bring  certain  ruin  eventually  upon  the 
Established  Church  in  the  whole  government  of  New  York 
and  bad  influences  upon  the  Church  in  all  the  adjacent  Col- 
onies, especially  the  Jersies  and  Pennsylvania. 

The  Presbyterians  avowed  openly  "in  the  face  of  the 
Country,"  as  Mr.  Poyer  wrote  the  Society,  that  "the  Lord 
Bishop  of  London  had  no  power  here." 

The  jurisdiction  of  the  Bishop  of  London  over  the  Col- 
onies made  him  the  most  important  person  next  to  the 
Governor.  He  was  a  non-resident  official  in  close  rela- 
tionship at  home  with  the  Crown.  There  was  nothing 
beneath  his  notice  which  might  be  for  the  civil  or  ecclesi- 
astical benefit  of  the  realm. 

All  the  clergy  who  were  sent  out  to  the  Colonies  were 
sent  out  by  the  Bishop  of  London.  No  one  else  could  send 
them. 

The  British  law  implied  and  assumed  that  to  make  good 
subjects  was  to  make  good  Christians,  and  the  Church  of 
England  was  the  best  Church  to  do  this  with  Englishmen. 

So  the  Bishop  of  London  found  it  his  duty  to  search  for 
missionaries,  supply  those  sent  abroad  with  a  church 
house,  glebe,  library  and  wages  until  local  effort  could 
supply  their  needs.  The  providing  of  schools  and  school- 
masters was  also  a  difficult  part  of  his  work  at  home  and 
abroad,  where  he  kept  in  touch  with  the  Governor  in 


OF   GRACE   CHURCH  71 

things  pertaining  to  education  as  well  as  to  the  church 
ministrations. 

The  opposition  to  Episcopy  in  New  York,  partly  on 
account  of  this  controversy,  led  to  new  provision  for  its 
defence.  A  charter  had  been  granted  to  Trinity  Church  in 
New  York  in  1697,  in  which  it  is  frequently  asserted  that 
the  Church  of  England  in  the  Province  was  established  by 
law.  The  rector.  Rev.  Mr.  Vesey,  was  sent  to  England 
carrying  a  copy  of  this  charter,  in  order  to  present  the 
matter  to  the  highest  authorities  and  secure  some  relief  to 
the  cause  of  the  Church,  in  the  contention. 

In  the  year  1705  another  Act  of  General  Assembly  was 
passed  for  the  better  explaining  the  previous  one,  for  set- 
tling the  ministry  and  paying  the  salaries  of  the  incumbents 
of  the  Church  Wardens.  The  Independents  made  com- 
plaint against  Lord  Cornbury  for  his  arbitrary  course  in 
regard  to  the  Jamaica  parsonage  and  other  property,  lay- 
ing claim  also  to  the  Church  because  they  were  more  in 
number  than  the  Churchmen  who  had  paid  for  it. 

Lord  Lovelace  succeeded  Lord  Cornbury,  and  these  com- 
plaints came  before  him,  but  the  matter  was  not  deter- 
mined before  he  died.  The  Lieut.  Governor,  Col.  In- 
goldesby,  recommended  that  neighboring  ministers  of  the 
Church  should  serve  at  Jamaica,  alternately.  When  he 
was  removed,  in  the  interim  of  Governors  under  Col. 
Beekman,  President  of  the  Council,  some  of  the  Independ- 
ents took  possession  forcibly  of  the  Church,  but  were 
arrested  and  fmed  for  the  proceeding. 

They  obtained  possession  again  through  the  action  of 
the  widow  of  Rev.  Mr.  Urquhart,  whose  daughter  had 
married  a  Presbyterian  clergyman,  Mr.  George  McNish, 


72  ORIGIN    AND    HISTORY 

and  who  turned  over  the  parsonage  to  him:  The  Sheriff, 
who  was  a  strong  Independent,  refused  to  turn  them  out, 
and  so  Mr.  Poyer,  on  his  arrival  and  induction,  and  after 
numerous  efforts  and  demands,  which  were  made  in  vain, 
was  kept  out  of  possession  of  the  parsonage  and  glebe. 

The  Act  to  settle  the  Church,  it  was  contended  by  the 
Churchmen,  "is  very  loosely  worded,  which  as  things 
stood  then  when  it  was  made  could  not  be  avoided,  the 
Dissenters  claiming  the  benefit  of  it  as  we,  and  the  Act 
without  such  wrestling  will  admit  a  construction  in  their 
favor  as  well  as  ours,  they  think  it  was  intended  for  them 
and  that  they  only  have  a  right  to  it." 

It  appears  that  the  members  of  the  Legislature  which 
passed  the  Act  were  all  but  one  Dissenters,  but  the  Gov- 
ernor and  Council  who  constituted  part  of  the  Legislature 
were  Churchmen,  and  that  the  Act  was  really  intended  to 
aid  the  Churchmen  to  build  churches  by  the  maker  of  the 
bills,  who  was  James  Graham,  Esquire,  the  Speaker  of  the 
Assembly. 

In  Mr.  Foyer's  time  Gov.  Hunter,  according  to  Col. 
Morris,  could  not  help  thinking  the  Church  was  right  with 
respect  to  their  claims  for  the  property,  and  urged  Mr. 
Poyer  to  bring  suit  of  law,  to  recover  possession,  and  of- 
fered to  pay  the  expenses  of  the  suit  from  his  own  purse. 
So  also  did  Col.  Heathcote,  but  Mr.  Poyer  referred  the 
matter  to  the  judgment  of  the  Society;  because  he  could 
not  prevail  on  the  Governor  to  take  summary  proceedings, 
as  Lord  Cornbury  had  done  for  Mr.  Urquhart. 

Mr.  Poyer  was  charged  by  Col.  Morris  and  Governor 
Hunter  with  being  weak  in  his  character  and  action.  The 
contention  was  made  to  the  Society  in  Memorials  by  Gov. 
Hunter,  Col.  Morris  and  Col.  Heathcote,  the  Clergy  of 


OF   GRACE    CHURCH  73 

New  York,  missionaries  and  rectors  of  New  York  and  of 
some  of  the  Colonies;  and  by  Mr.  Poyer.  Finally  suit  was 
brought  by  Mr.  Poyer  by  advice  of  Council  for  the  parson- 
age and  glebe,  which  was  lost. 

'■''The  only  record  made  of  the  trial  of  the  suit  of  Mr. 
Poyer  against  the  tenants  of  the  parsonage  lands,  home- 
stead and  outlands  that  has  been  found  reads  as  follows,  in 
the  minutes  of  the  trial  in  Judge  Morris's  book: 

At  a  Court,  by  nisi  prius,  held  at  Jamaica.     Present,   Lewis 
Morris,  Esq.,  Chief  Justice. 
John  Chambers  vs.  Joseph  Hegeman,  Jr. 
The  Same  vs.  Robert  Denton. 
Defendants  confers  lease,  entry  and  ouster. 

EVIDENCE  FOR  PLAINTIFF. 

Thomas  Welling,  John  Dean,  Nehemiah  Smith  Sworn. 

A  Vote  of  town  meeting  in  1676,  for  parsonage  lands,  Richard 
Combs. 

Warrant  from  Lord  Cornbury  to  Cardale  to  survey  Church 
lands. 

Act  of  Assembly  to  explain  the  former  Act  (1705). 

John   Chambers  sworn   and  Thomas  Whitehead. 

An  Exemplification  of  the  Special  Verdict  read. 

EVIDENCE  FOR  DEFENCE. 

An  agreement  of  the  town  of  Jamaica  with  Rev.  John 
Prudden  read. 

Votes  of  the  town  for  Rev.  John  Hubbard  and  George  Mc- 
Nish,  to  be  ministers  read. 

Joseph  Smith   and   Elizabeth   Stillwell   sworn. 

Mr.  Prudden's  Exchange  of  land  with  the  town,  (September 
29,  1693)  read. 

Jury  find  for  defendant. 

Murray  for  plaintiff  and  Jamison  for  defendant. 

The  postea  returned  up  November  term,  1724. 


*Onderdonk. 


74  ORIGIN    AND    HISTORY 

The  judges  in  the  trial  denied  all  authority  from  Eng- 
land in  spiritual  matters,  and  the  memorialist  to  the  Society 
declared  it  was  impossible  to  get  an  impartial  jury  in  that 
County  where  all  are  concerned  in  the  event,  and  the 
greater  number  of  them  stiff  Independents. 

A  suit  for  salary  was  undertaken  under  the  extremely 
urgent  representations  to  Mr.  Poyer  of  Gov.  Hunter,  Col. 
Morris,  Col.  Heathcote,  who  blamed  him  for  lukewarm- 
ness  and  hesitancy  in  bringing  his  case  to  decision  by  law, 
the  costs  of  which  they  again  and  again  offered  to  defray. 
Mr.  Poyer  in  reply  to  their  charges  averred  that  he  had 
exerted  himself  in  this  affair  with  a  zeal  suitable  to  his 
office  and  duty,  and  meanwhile  had  borne  the  burdens  and 
hardships  which  the  nonpayment  of  his  salary  imposed  on 
himself  and  his  family. 

An  address  of  the  Clergy  of  the  Province  of  New  York 
to  Gov.  Hunter  March  3,  1712,  attempts  to  exculpate  Mr. 
Poyer  from  the  charges  of  disregard  of  the  Governor's 
representation  and  advice  relative  to  bringing  to  trial  by 
law  the  matters  of  the  Jamaica  controversy. 

Aug.  26,  1712,  the  Society  brought  the  Jamaica  case 
before  the  Queen;  and  representing  to  her  that  Mr.  Poyer 
had  not  yet  brought  suit  by  advice,  because  the  Clergy  had 
declared  justice  could  not  be  obtained  in  such  trial,  asked 
her  Majesty  to  instruct  the  Governor  and  Council  of  New 
York  that  "m  causes  relating  immediately  to  the  Church 
an  appeal  may  lie  to  her  Majesty  and  Privy  Council  here 
without  any  restriction  or  limitation  of  the  value  or  sum 
appealed  for." 

An  order  in  the  Queen's  Council,  Jan.  8,  1712,  was 
granted  in  consideration  of  the  Jamaica  case,  authorizing 
such  direct  appeal  from  the  Governor  and  Council  to 


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75 


Her  Majesty  and  Privy  Council  without  limitation  as  to 
value  aforesaid,  and  instructions  given  accordingly  to 
Gov.  Hunter,  Feb.  6,  1713.  Thus  the  Jamaica  contention 
carried  to  the  highest  court  of  England  fixed  the  course  of 
procedure  for  all  the  colonial  churches. 

The  Vestry  refused  to  allow  Mr.  Poyer  to  be  present  at 
their  meeting  to  lay  a  tax  for  the  minister  and  poor,  telling 
him  he  had  nothing  to  do  there,  though  they  took  Mr. 
McNish  with  them. 


The  Governor  informed  Mr.  Poyer  that  by  Her  Majes- 
ty's instructions  they  can  hold  no  Vestry  without  Mr. 
Poyer,  having  been  regularly  inducted  in  that  case.  He 
continued,  "so  what  they  do  as  a  Vestry  without  you,  is 
null  and  void.  Had  my  advice  been  followed  these  de- 
bates had  been  at  an  end,  but  that  it  seems  is  none  of  your 


76  ORIGIN    AND    HISTORY 

Intention,  at  least  not  theirs  who  advise  you,  or  have  ever 
had,  or  thought  to  have  and  find  their  interest  in 
confusion." 

The  Justice  and  Vestry  of  Jamaica  met  Jan.  22,  1714, 
and  ordered  the  salary  to  be  paid  to  Mr.  McNish,  the  Pres- 
byterian minister,  as  they  had  done  the  previous  year, 
taking-  no  notice  of  the  Governor's  instructions. 

Rev.  Mr.  Colgan,  twenty  years  after  this,  thus  v/rote 
the  Society: 

One  of  the  stratagems  of  Independents  and  Quakers  was  to 
sue  for  an  edifice  wherein  divine  service  was  performed  by 
ministers  of  the  Church  of  England  near  30  years  by  pretence 
that  they  had  a  better  right  than  the  Church  members  and  thus 
met  with  not  a  little  success,  for  in  sueing  Mr.  Poyer  my  prede- 
cessor, who  being  Defendant  in  the  case  they  upon  a  very  odd 
turn  in  the  trial  cast  him. 

I  am  informed  that  in  this  suit,  the  Counsel  upon  the  part  of 
the  Church  always  designed  to  put  the  matter  on  some  points 
of  the  law  which  are  clearly  in  the  Church's  favor  and  accord- 
ingly in  the  time  of  trial  offered  to  demur  in  law  but  was  di- 
verted therefrom  by  the  late  Chief  Justice  Morris  Esq.,  before 
whom  the  trial  was,  who  told  them  that  he  would  recommend 
to  the  Jury  to  find  a  special  verdict,  and  if  they  did  not,  but 
found  generally  and  against  the  Church,  he  would  then  allow  a 
new  trial ;  which  after  the  Jury  had  found  a  general  verdict 
against  the  Church  he  absolutely  refused  when  the  Counsel  for 
the  Church  laid  claim  to  his  promise  and  strongly  insisted  upon 
the   benefit  thereof. 

I  have  been  told  by  some  of  the  Counsel  for  the  Church  that 
the  only  seeming  reason  he  gave  for  his  denial  was  that  a  bad 
promise  was  better  broke  than  kept  and  thus  an  end  was  put  to 
the  controversy. 

THOMAS  COLGAN. 

June    14,   1734. 

Doc.  Hist.  New  York,  Letter  to  Secy.  S.  P.  G.,  Ill,  p.  190. 


OF   GRACE    CHURCH  11 

Some  of  the  later  decisions  in  this  controversy  are  here 
given: 

April  7,  1715.  In  the  Supreme  Court  a  Special  verdict 
was  given  in  an  action  brought  by  Mr.  Poyer  against  Mr. 
McNish  for  recovering  part  of  the  minister's  money,  where 
the  right  of  Mr.  Poyer  was  fully  argued  and  judgment 
passed  in  his  behalf.  The  expenses  of  the  suit  were  £30, 
and  were  paid  by  the  Venerable  Society.  The  lawsuits  for 
Glebe  lands  and  the  Church  itself  were  lost  by  the  Church 
of  England  people. 

On  the  25th  of  Feb.,  1719,  in  the  case  of  the  non-pay- 
ment of  salary  to  Mr.  Poyer,  the  Judges  gave  judgment 
against  the  two  church  wardens,  imposing  a  fine  and  dis- 
missing them  from  office.  New  church  wardens  were 
then  appointed  in  their  stead. 

The  cause  of  this  unhappy  controversy  can  be  clearl}) 
traced  to  the  deep-seated  opposition  of  the  Independent 
and  dissenting  element  in  the  population  of  the  American 
Colonies,  to  the  recognition  of  a  foreign  secular  authority 
over  the  religious  affairs  of  the  Colonies. 

There  was  proceeding  from  this  opposition  a  plain 
denial  of  the  canonical  rights  of  the  Bishop  of  London  in 
the  Established  Church,  when  he  proceeded  to  control  and 
appoint  the  ministers  of  the  Established  Church  in  the 
Colonies. 


78  ORIGIN    AND    HISTORY 

CHAPTER  VIII. 

The  Rectorship  of  Rev.  Thomas  Colgan. 

Rev.  Thomas  Colgan  was  born  in  1701,  and  entered 
upon  the  work  of  the  Venerable  Society  in  America  in 
1 725.  He  had  a  mission  to  the  negroes  and  Indians  in  and 
about  New  York  from  1725  to  1731,  and  had  gained  the 
favor  of  the  rector  and  wardens  of  Trinity  Church,  where 
he  began  to  read  services,  and  to  preach  in  June,  1732. 
Endowed  with  a  peculiarly  clear  and  distinct  voice  it  was 
also  so  strong  that  it  could  be  heard  by  the  remotest  wor- 
shippers, and  his  services  were  received  ''  with  great 
applause." 

Mr.  Colgan  was  so  highly  recommended  to  the  Society 
for  the  vacancy  made  by  Mr.  Foyer's  resignation,  that  he 
received  the  appointment,  and  began  to  officiate  in  June, 
1732.  He  was  inducted  by  mandate  of  Governor  Cosby 
Jan.  31,  1733.  This  mandate  was  addressed  "to  all  and 
singular,  the  rectors,  vicars,  chaplains,  curates,  clergymen, 
and  ministers,  whatsoever,  in  and  throughout  the  whole 
Province  wherever  established:  and,  also  to  Samuel  Fish 
and  Samuel  Smith,  present  Church  Wardens  of  the  Paro- 
chial Church  of  Jamaica,  on  Long  Island,  in  the  Province 
of  New  York."  It  presented  Thos.  Colgan  "to  the  rectory 
or  parochial  church;  it  firmly  enjoined  and  commanded 
them,  to  collate  and  induct  the  said  Thomas  Colgan,  or  his 
lawful  proctor  in  his  name  and  for  himself,  into  the  real, 
actual  and  corporeal  possession  of  said  rectory  or  church, 
with  all  its  rights  and  appurtenances." 


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79 


The  Vestry  refused  to  pay  Mr.  Colgan  any  salary  before 
his  induction  or  after  it,  and  he  brought  suit  for  the  £60 
due  him  before  his  induction.  The  dissenting  wardens 
sought  by  special  act  of  the  Assembly  to  divert  it  from  him, 
but  were  unsuccessful. 

"From  that  time  there  were  no  further  complaints  of 
non  payment  of  salary,  no  law  suits  nor  quarrels." 
(— Onderdonk.) 


Grace  Church,  1734.     (From  an  old  print.) 

The  spirit  of  his  ministry  was  well  expressed  in  his  letter 
to  the  Society,  a  few  years  after,  describing  the  new  church 
which  had  been  built,  as  one  of  the  handsomest  in  North 
America.  "Our  Church  is  flourishing  and  many  are 
added  to  it.    We  are  at  peace  with  the  Sectarians  around 


80  ORIGIN    AND    HISTORY 

us.    I  shall  be  of  a  loving  and  charitable  demeanor  to 
every  persuasion." 

Mr.  Colgan  undertook  to  erect  churches  in  the  three 
towns.  One  was  built  in  Newtown  in  1735.  it  is  still 
standing  and  in  use  for  the  Sunday  School  of  St.  James. 
Another  in  Flushing,  eleven  years  after,  in  1746. 

From  the  beginning  of  Mr.  Colgan's  rectorship,  the  St. 
James  Church  in  Newtown  prospered.  In  five  years  he 
had  baptized  there  twenty-three  persons  in  two  families, 
and  many  others,  both  white  and  black,  and  distributed 
among  the  poor  the  books  sent  over  by  the  Society.  In 
Flushing  and  Jamaica,  Quaker  families  conformed  to  the 
Church,  and  were  baptized,  his  distribution  of  pastoral 
and  theological  books  and  prayer  books  having  been  very 
effective  for  their  enlightenment. 

Mr.  Colgan  for  two  years  gathered  the  people  for  ser- 
vice in  the  Town  House,  where  Mr.  Foyer  had  ministered 
in  the  latter  part  of  his  life,  to  a  disheartened  people. 

Under  Mr.  Colgan's  direction  they  began  to  exert  them- 
selves towards  building  a  new  church,  but  finding  them- 
selves unable  alone  to  accomplish  the  undertaking,  they 
were  obliged  to  apply  to  several  well-disposed  Christians 
in  the  province,  from  whom  they  received  considerable 
help,  and  especially  from  the  Governor  and  his  family. 

Mr.  Colgan  married  Mary,  daughter  of  John  Reade  of 
New  York,  and  a  niece  of  Rev.  Mr.  Vesey.  With  property 
thus  acquired,  he  bought  the  farm  of  the  widow  of  Mr. 
Foyer,  and  added  to  it,  so  that  it  contained  66  acres.  His 
comparative  wealth  gave  him  a  higher  position  in  the 
community.  Mr.  Colgan  was  strong  and  vigorous  but 
peaceful  in  disposition.  His  people  continued  to  worship 
in  the  Town  House,  and  his  congregations  grew  so  large 


OF   GRACE   CHURCH  81 

in  all  three  communities  to  which  he  ministered,  that  they 
sought  to  build  churches  for  themselves.  They  had  in- 
creased from  20  or  30  to  200  in  Jamaica.  The  people  in 
Jamaica  were  aided  by  others  in  the  Province,  and  espe- 
cially by  Governor  Cosby,  his  wife  and  family.  A  lot  of 
land  was  given  by  the  widow  of  Col.  Heathcote  bordering 
on  the  highway  west  of  the  Stone  Church.  It  contained 
about  half  an  acre,  and  was  deeded  to  Thos.  Colgan, 
Rector,  his  heirs  and  successors,  to  remain  the  property  of 
the  Church,  so  long  as  it  should  retain  its  Episcopal  wor- 
ship and  character.  Here  was  erected  the  first  Episcopal 
Church  concerning  which  there  could  be  no  contention. 
The  churchmen,  however,  solicited  aid  in  its  building, 
which  was  freely  given. 

By  June,  1734,  it  was  in  a  condition  to  hold  services, 
though  far  from  completion.  There  was  no  bell,  but 
decent  and  comely  vestments  were  furnished  by  the  Gov- 
ernor's wife,  "  a  great  friend  and  patroness."  The  ap- 
pointments of  the  services  under  former  rectors,  and  the 
gifts  of  the  Society  were  still  preserved  for  use. 

Grace  Church  was  opened  on  Friday,  April  5,  1734,  for 
the  first  service,  and  it  was  a  notable  event  in  Jamaica. 

There  is  no  reason  assigned  for  thus  naming  the  church. 
It  seems  to  have  been  first  applied  to  the  Jamaica  Church. 
The  origin  of  the  name  has  been  traced  to  a  Grace  Church 
St.,  in  London,  where  there  was  in  old  times  a  Church 
popularly  called  the  Grass  Church,  because  of  the  holding 
of  a  market  close  by,  and  spreading  grass  on  the  ground. 
From  this  the  street  apparently  took  its  name.  Some  col- 
onist in  the  early  Georgian  days,  remembering  the  name 
of  the  street  in  London,  thought  it  was  named  from  Grace 
Church  and  suggested  the  name  for  Jamaica.    The  name 


82  ORIGIN   AND   HISTORY 

of  William  Harrison,  minister  of  Grace  Church,  is  signed 
on  a  tract,  A.  D.  1704,  entitled,  "The  rights  of  Protestant 
Dissenters,"  which  has  a  printed  ending:  ''A  vindica- 
tion of  the  Ministers  of  the  Gospel  in  and  about  Lon- 
don, from  the  unjust  aspersions  Cast  upon  their  former 
Actings  for  the  Parliament.  As  if  they  had  promoted  the 
bringing  of  the  King  to  Capital  Punishment,"  &c.  The 
date  of  the  vindication  is  fixed  by  the  exhortation  to  their 
followers,  to  pray  "that  God  would  restrain  the  violence 
of  men  that  they  may  not  dare  to  draw  upon  themselves 
and  the  Kingdom,  the  blood  of  their  Sovereign,"  being 
therefore  some  months  before  Jan.  1648-9,  when  Charles 
I  was  beheaded.  (Letter  of  Prof.  Richard  H.  Thornton, 
Law  School  of  the  University  of  Oregon.) 

The  name  of  Grace  Church  first  appears  on  this  occa- 
sion. No  account  of  its  origin  or  the  reasons  for  its  use 
are  given,  but  the  very  fitness  of  the  name  to  the  charac- 
ter of  the  services  and  the  Church  thenceforth  under  the 
ministry  of  Mr.  Colgan  and  his  successors  were  a  vindica- 
tion of  its  appropriateness. 

"Our  church,"  Mr.  Colgan  writes  soon  after,  "is  in  a 
flourishing  state,  and  by  the  blessing  of  God  many  are 
added  to  it;  now  we  are  at  peace  with  those  several  secre- 
taries that  are  round  about  us,  and  I  hope  by  God's  help 
peace  will  subsist  amongst  us.  To  sow  the  seeds  thereof 
shall  be  my  endeavor,  to  be  of  a  loving  charitable  de- 
meanor to  all  men  of  whatever  persuasion  in  matters  of 
religion  shall  be  by  God's  help  my  practise,  that  so  dis- 
charging my  duty  herein,  I  may  contribute  my  mite  to  the 
good  of  the  Church  of  Christ."     (Letters  to  the  Society.) 

The  successive  reports  of  Mr.  Colgan  to  the  Society 
show  an  appreciation  in  the  communities  to  which  he  min- 


OF   GRACE   CHURCH  83 

istered,  of  the  peaceable  and  charitable  spirit  thus  avowed 
as  the  aim  and  tenor  of  his  ministry.  It  had  become  the 
prevailing  disposition  of  those  who  were  Churchmen,  and 
dissenters  were  also  brought  in  to  happier  relations  with 
their  neighbors  and  fellow  citizens.  The  truths  of  re- 
ligion, and  the  reasonable  claims  of  the  Church  that  from 
the  first  had  stood  for  them  had  their  due  effect. 

Mr.  Colgan  wrote,  Nov.  22,  1740:  ''We  have  yearly  for 
seven  years  last  past  increased  in  church  members.  So 
those  buildings  are  generally  well  filled  in  time  of  Divine 
service,  and  the  worship  of  God  is  duly  performed  with 
decency  and  good  order,  the  several  sects  which  are  around 
us  do  look  upon  the  Church  with  a  more  respectful  eye 
than  formerly:  there  being  not  wanting  either  in  myself 
or  people  any  Christian  like  or  prudential  means  necessary 
to  form  a  reconciliation  and  union  among  us." 

About  a  year  later,  Dec.  l5,  1741,  Mr.  Colgan  wrote  the 
Society:  ''I  must  with  a  great  deal  of  truth  say  of  these 
churches  Jamaica,  Newtown  and  Flushing,  that  not  only 
are  they  in  a  growing  condition  and  the  members  thereof 
generally  of  an  exemplary  life  and  conversation,  but  that 
the  Church  of  England  here  was  never  in  so  much  credit 
and  reputation  among  the  Dissenters  of  all  sorts  as  at  this 
day:  their  opinion  concerning  her  Doctrine  as  well  as  dis- 
cipline being  vastly  more  favorable  than  ever." 

This  moral  and  spiritual  prosperity  with  increase  of 
numbers  and  activity  continued  for  several  years.  Sept., 
1743,  Mr.  Colgan  writes:  "Never  in  so  thriving  a  condition 
—have  baptized  since  my  last  report  seventeen  persons  in 
three  families."  But  he  wrote  a  year  later,  1744:  "Inde- 
pendency which  has  been  triumphant  in  this  town  for  the 
40  years  last  past  is  now  by  the  Providence  of  God  in  a 


84  ORIGIN   AND   HISTORY 

very  faint  and  declining  condition."  It  is  evident  that  the 
old  spirit  was  not  dead,  but  had  moved  into  the  other 
house. 

The  prosperity  of  Grace  Church  was  increased  at  this 
time  by  a  violent  dissension  in  the  Dutch  Church  in  New- 
town and  Jamaica. 

On  Sept.  29,  1746,  a  Church  had  been  erected  in  Flush- 
ing and  Mr.  Colgan  hoped  that  it  could  be  finished  in  three 
months.  "There  was,"  he  wrote,  "no  set  of  people  within 
this  province  who  are  greater  objects  of  the  Society's  pity 
and  charity  than  those  belonging  to  the  town  of  Flushing." 
This  Church  was  only  enclosed  so  as  to  keep  out  the 
weather.  It  had  to  stand  fifteen  years  before  it  was  fin- 
ished. The  Quakers,  who  were  very  numerous  in  Flush- 
ing, not  only  bitterly  opposed  the  Church  of  England  ser- 
vices, but  through  their  doctrines  of  the  inward  light  as 
their  only  guide  removed  the  restraints  of  worship,  the 
word  of  God,  and  the  outward  forms  of  religion,  and  cor- 
rupted the  youth  and  those  indifferent  or  hostile  to  re- 
ligious authority. 

It  seems  incongruous  with  such  piety  as  Mr.  Colgan 
and  his  people  possessed  that  in  1747  they  resorted  to  a 
public  lottery  for  the  benefit  of  the  church.  Thirteen  hun- 
dred tickets  were  sold  at  eight  shillings  each,  equal  to  £520. 
From  each  prize  won,  12  1/2  per  cent,  was  drawn  for  pur- 
chasing a  bell  for  Grace  Church. 

The  home  life  of  Mr.  Colgan's  family  offered  social  at- 
tractions to  the  people  of  Jamaica.  His  extensive  farm, 
situated  on  the  west  side  of  Beaver  Pond,  which  was  in 
full  view,  added  to  the  beauty  of  the  location. 

Upon  the  farm,  which  was  fenced,  was  an  orchard  of 
one  hundred  trees,  from  whose  fruits  a  hundred  barrels  of 


OF   GRACE    CHURCH  85 

cider  could  be  made  each  year.  The  house  had  eight 
rooms  on  a  floor,  and  two  good  rooms  upstairs.  The 
shrubs  and  bushes  around  the  pond  were  frequented  by 
birds  and  game.  It  is  of  historic  interest  that  this  estate, 
afterwards  the  residence  for  two  or  three  generations  of 
the  family  and  descendants  of  Hon.  Rufus  King,  and  his 
son,  Governor  John  A.  King,  and  Senator  John  A.  King 
and  Miss  Cornelia  King,  became  the  spacious  and  beauti- 
ful King  Manor  Park  in  the  center  of  Queens  Borough  and 
Jamaica.  One  of  Mr.  Colgan's  daughters,  Mary,  married 
Mr.  Christopher  Smith,  who  after  Mrs.  Colgan's  death 
inherited  the  farm,  and  resided  there.  From  them  it  came 
by  purchase  into  the  possession  of  Hon.  Rufus  King.  A 
journal  of  the  family  life  of  Mr.  and  Mrs.  Smith  has  been 
preserved,  which  contains  no  notable  incidents  of  general 
interest.  Mrs.  Colgan,  the  widow,  died  in  the  Mansion 
April  17,  1776.  She  had  the  same  peaceful  temper  of 
Christianity  which  brings  comfort  in  life,  which  marked 
her  husband's  ministry,  and  as  wife,  parent  and  friend 
traveled  through  "the  path  that  shineth  more  and  more 
unto  the  perfect  day." 

The  pews  and  lots  in  the  new  Church  and  grounds  were 
sold  to  the  highest  bidder.  The  terms  of  the  sale  required 
that  each  purchaser  should  build  his  own  pew.  If  he  did 
not  make  use  of  it  the  Church  should  let  it  out  to  another, 
and  if  he  left  the  parish,  the  pew  or  lot  was  to  revert  to 
the  Church. 

The  names  of  the  purchasers  of  the  thirty  pews,  on  Feb. 
23,  1737,  were  found  in  a  book  of  Christopher  Smith, 
copied  in  1786  from  a  certified  copy  of  the  original  list, 
which  was  itself  copied  in  1761,  by  Edward  Willett  and 
John  Troup.  These  names  include  some  which  became 
distinguished  in  subsequent  history  of  New  York  families. 


86  ORIGIN    AND    HISTORY 

1  Daniel  Whitehead,  2  Robert  Howell,  3  George  Reyn- 
olds, 4  William  Steed,  5  Rector  for  time  being,  6  Anthony 
Waters,  7  Richard  Betts,  Jr.,  8  Richard  Betts,  9  Samuel 
Clowes,  10  Samuel  Clowes,  Jr,  11  Gabriel  Luflf,  12  John 
Willett,  13  Andrew  Clark,  14  Robert  Freeman,  15  Com- 
mon pew,  16  Henry  Wright,  17  Edward  Willett  to  Samuel 
Smith,  18  Benjamin  Taylor,  19  Sarah  Poyer,  gratis,  20 
Benjamin  Thorne,  21  Samuel  Clowes,  22  Thomas  Colgan, 
23  William  Welling,  24  Timothy  Bridges,  25  "Guy  Young, 
26  Isaac  Van  Hook,  27  William  Wiggins,  28  Daniel  Saw- 
yer, 29  Silas  Wiggins,  30  Benjamin  Whitehead. 

The  ministry  of  Mr.  Colgan  in  Jamaica  especially  fos- 
tered the  education  of  his  parishioners  and  in  the  same 
year  of  his  induction,  from  the  Venerable  Society,  Mr. 
Willett  received  a  salary  of  £15  a  year  as  a  teacher,  com- 
mended for  his  exemplary  life  and  diligence.  Five  years 
after  he  had  forty-three  pupils,  of  whom  twenty-three 
were  freely  taught  by  the  Society.  Thomas  Temple  main- 
tained a  school  at  intervals  from  1731  to  1746,  and  in 
1743,  Mr.  John  Moore,  a  graduate  of  Yale  College,  and  a 
candidate  for  holy  orders  was  recommended  to  the  sup- 
port of  the  Society  by  Rev.  Mr.  Vesey,  to  teach  in  Jamaica. 
The  venerable  school-house  thus  made  memorable  to 
many  of  the  early  churchmen  of  Jamaica,  as  their  paro- 
chial school,  was  sold  in  1761  for  £3. 

Four  years  before  the  close  of  Mr.  Colgan's  ministry,  in 
1751,  he  reported  the  same  prosperous  condition  of  Grace 
Church.  He  had  "fifty  steady  communicants,  had  bap- 
tized sixteen  whites  and  ten  negroes  in  the  last  six  months; 
religion  was  progressing  and  the  Society's  bounty  turned 
to  good  account."  With  about  the  same  number  of  bap- 
tisms in  the  year  1753,  he  could  say  that  "all  three 
churches  of  his  cure  were  in  an  increasing  state." 


Rev.  Thos.  Colgan. 


OF  GRACE   CHURCH  B7 

When  Mr.  Colgan  died,  Dec,  1755,  he  was  regretted  as 
a  gentleman  much  esteemed  by  his  acquaintance.  He 
was  buned  in  the  chancel  of  the  church,  which  he  had  seen 
erected  without  dispute  and  which  he  had  steadfastly  used 
for  the  glory  of  God. 

He  left  a  family  consisting  of  his  wife  and  eight  chil- 
dren. The  married  names  of  his  daughters  were  Mary 
Smith,  Sarah  Hammersley,  Jane  Van  Zandt.  The  remain- 
ing children  were  Judith,  Thomas,  Fleming,  and  John, 
who  died  in  1758. 

Mrs.  Colgan  was  buried  beside  her  husband  in  Grace 
Church,  where  their  lives  had  been  of  gracious  service  to 
a  united  people. 

On  Christmas,  1903,  a  life-size  portrait  of  Mr.  Colgan 
was  given  to  Grace  Church  by  Mary  Sheaf  Glover  Mills, 
in  loving  memory  of  his  great  granddaughter,  Mary  Col- 
gan Joanna  Smith  Hoyt.  A  portrait  of  this  granddaughter 
is  in  the  King  Manor  collection. 

The  Colgan  family  arms  on  parchment  were  also  given, 
with  the  portrait  of  the  rector,  as  an  interesting  relic  to  be 
preserved  in  Grace  Church.  He  belonged  to  a  family  in 
England  of  some  distinction,  whose  descendants  have  been 
allied  by  marriage  with  those  of  high  rank  in  the  nobility 
of  the  realm. 

The  Church  in  Jamaica,  erected  during  the  ministry  of 
Mr.  Colgan,  having  become  too  small,  gave  way  to  another 
in  1821,  built  on  the  same  ground,  which  had  been  sur- 
rounded with  graves  of  its  parishioners. 


88  ORIGIN   AND    HISTORY 


CHAPTER  IX. 

The  Ministry  of  Rev.  Samuel  Seabury,  Jr. — 1757-1766. 

The  contentious  spirit  so  long  restrained  by  the  pacific 
and  prosperous  rectorship  of  Rev.  Mr.  Colgan  again  broke 
forth  after  his  death.  The  law  of  the  Province  still  pre- 
vailed, making  it  possible  for  the  community  to  elect 
Wardens  and  a  Vestry  hostile  to  the  Church  of  England. 
The  Vestry  in  fact  had  a  majority  of  Dissenters,  and  they 
presented  Mr.  Simon  Horton  for  induction  into  the  parish 
of  Jamaica  town.  Mr.  Horton  was  a  dissenting  teacher. 
Sir  Charles  Hardy,  the  Governor  of  New  York,  following 
the  instructions  of  the  King,  refused  to  admit  him  to  the 
cure.  He  could  not  present  the  requisite  certificate  under 
the  Episcopal  Seal  of  the  Bishop  of  London.  No  person 
who  had  conformed  to  the  Liturgy  of  the  Church  of  Eng- 
land was  presented,  and  after  six  months,  the  Governor 
appointed  the  Rev.  Samuel  Seabury,  Jr.,  a  missionary 
supported  by  the  Society,  at  New  Brunswick,  to  the  cure 
of  the  three  churches. 

The  three  Churches  had  been  supplied  by  the  ministra- 
tions of  several  clergymen,  one  of  whom,  Rev.  Mr,  Bar- 
clay, had  made  report  to  the  Society  of  their  needs,  which 
the  Society  took  into  consideration,  and  prompt  action. 

Mr.  Samuel  Seabury,  Jr.,  had  been  early  in  the  service 
of  the  Society,  as  a  lay  reader,  or  catechist  at  Huntington, 
L.  I.,  under  the  direction  of  his  father,  Rev.  Samuel  Sea- 
bury, rector  of  the  church  in  Hempstead.  At  the  time  of 
Mr.  Colgan's  death  he  was  a  missionary  of  the  Society  and 


OF   GRACE    CHURCH  89 

rector  at  New  Brunswick,  New  Jersey.    He  was  trans- 
ferred to  Grace  Church,  Jamaica,  in  1757. 

Mr.  Seabury  was  born  at  Groton,  Conn.,  Nov.  30,  1729, 
when  his  father  was  rector  at  New  London,  nearly  oppo- 
site to  Groton.  When  the  father  removed  to  Hempstead, 
the  scene  of  his  most  noted  and  useful  missionary  labors, 
his  son  was  fourteen  years  old,  and  was  to  be  educated  at 
his  father's  parochial  school  in  Hempstead.  Here  he  was 
both  a  pupil  and  tutor.  He  received  the  degree  of  M.  A. 
at  Yale  College  in  1748.  Thus  began  the  distinguished 
career  of  the  Samuel  Seabury,  Jr.,  who  became  the  fifth 
rector  of  Grace  Church  by  appointment  of  the  Society. 
Having  served  as  catechist  in  Huntington,  L.  I.,  from 
1748-1752,  he  went  to  England  and  received  Holy  Orders 
from  the  Bishop  of  Lincoln  in  1753;  from  thence  he  went 
to  New  Brunswick,  New  Jersey. 

His  ancestors  were  of  Portlake,  Devonshire,  England. 
His  great  grandfather  was  a  noted  physician  and  surgeon 
at  Duxbury,  Mass.,  and  his  grandfather,  John  Seabury,  a 
Congregational  deacon,  his  grandmother,  Elizabeth  Alden, 
was  a  granddaughter  of  John  Alden  of  the  Mayflower. 
The  sturdy  character  which  the  rector  of  Jamaica  had  thus 
inherited  from  Puritan  ancestry  was  well  fitted  to  meet 
the  grievous  trials  which  came  to  him  in  his  ministry  at 
Jamaica,  and  his  valiant  and  unique  service  to  the  Epis- 
copal Church  in  America  as  the  first  Bishop,  and  the  first 
Bishop  of  the  Anglican  Communion  outside  of  the  United 
Kingdom  of  Great  Britain. 

Archdeacon  Tiffmy  says  in  his  History  of  the  American 
Church:  "Jamaica  made  its  mark  on  him,  as  well  as  he  on 
it."  His  rectorship  of  the  three  churches  continued  for 
eight  years,  till  1765.    He  valued  the  association  which 


90  ORIGIN    AND    HISTORY 

this  ministry  gave  him,  with  Rev.  Samuel  Seabury  of 
Hempstead,  since  it  brought  him  "nearer  to  a  most  excel- 
lent father,  whom  he  dearly  loved  and  whose  conversation 
he  highly  valued."  Mr.  Seabury  was  brought  at  once  into 
contact  with  the  Quakerism  which  had  smothered  the 
principles  of  the  Church,  and  produced  indifference  and 
infidelity,  the  neglect  of  divine  worship  and  contempt  of 
the  sacraments.  He  reported  gloomily  of  the  state  of  re- 
ligion in  Flushing,  which  he  called  "the  grand  seat  of 
Quakerism,  in  the  last  generation,  and  in  this  the  seat  of 
infidelity."  In  Jamaica,  1759,  he  wrote,  there  was  less 
"open  infidelity,  but  a  general  remissness  in  attending 
Divine  Service  prevails,  though  I  know  not  from  what  par- 
ticular cause." 

Six  months  later  he  wrote  the  Society:  "A  general  indif- 
ference towards  all  religion  has  taken  place;  and  the  too 
common  opinion  seems  to  be  that  they  shall  be  saved 
without  either  of  the  Christian  Sacraments,  without  any 
external  worship  of  God, — in  short  without  the  mediation 
of  Christ,  as  well  as  with;  and  even  among  those  who  pro- 
fess themselves  members  of  the  Church  of  England,  a  very 
great  backwardness  in  attending  her  service  prevails,  and 
particularly  with  regard  to  the  holy  Sacrament  of  the 
Lord's  Supper;  so  great  is  their  aversion  to  it,  or  neglect 
of  it,  that  I  fear  the  number  of  Communicants  at  present 
scarce  exceeds  twenty."  (Original  Letters,  Vol.  XIX,  L. 
154;  2  Ibid  I,  155.) 

It  was  at  the  time  of  Mr.  Seabury's  ministry  in  Jamaica 
that  the  needs  of  the  Church  of  England  in  America  made 
the  question  of  the  appointment  of  Bishops  of  vital  im- 
portance. After  the  preaching  of  Whitfield  there  was  an 
increase  of  strolling  preachers  who  abused  the  Church  of 


OF   GRACE    CHURCH  91 

England,  and  led  those  who  had  any  inclination  to  religion 
into  strange  and  fanatical  expressions  of  it. 

The  authority  of  the  orders  in  the  Church  was  disputed, 
and  there  was  no  one  to  represent  that  authority  or  defend 
and  justify  it  by  the  ordination  of  ministers,  and  the  con- 
firmation of  those  who  were  baptized.  The  urgent  and 
repeated  calls  of  the  Colonies  for  resident  Bishops  were 
refused  by  the  mother  country.  Yet  young  men  willing 
and  qualified  to  serve  the  church  often  lost  their  lives  to 
obtain  ordination  in  England. 

In  a  letter,  dated  April  17,  1766,  Mr.  Seabury  wrote  of 
these  often  recurring  calamities,  as  follows: 

''We  have  lately  had  a  most  affecting  account  of  the  loss 
of  Messrs.  Giles  and  Wilson,  the  Society's  Missionaries, 
the  ship  they  were  in  being  wrecked  near  the  entrance  of 
Delaware  Bay,  and  only  four  persons  saved  out  of  twenty- 
eight. 

'Their  death  is  a  great  loss  in  the  present  want  of 
clergymen  in  these  Colonies;  and  indeed,  I  believe  one 
great  reason  why  so  few  from  this  Continent  offer  them- 
selves for  Holy  Orders  is  because  it  is  evident  from  expe- 
rience that  not  more  than  four  or  five  who  have  gone  from 
northern  colonies  have  returned.  This  is  one  unanswer- 
able argument  for  the  absolute  necessity  of  bishops  in  the 
colonies.  The  poor  Church  of  England  in  America  is  the 
only  instance  that  ever  happened  of  an  Episcopal  Church 
without  a  bishop,  and  in  which  no  orders  could  be  ob- 
tained without  crossing  an  ocean  3000  miles  in  extent. 
Without  bishops  the  Church  cannot  flourish  in  America. 
*  *  *  And  that  it  is  of  the  last  consequence  to  the  State 
to  support  the  Church  here,  the  present  times  afford  a 
most  alarming  proof." 


92  ORIGIN    AND    HISTORY 

The  effect  of  Mr.  Seabury's  steady  ministry  of  the  doc- 
trines and  sacraments  of  the  Church  was  to  produce  a 
serious  state  of  mind  in  his  parishes.  In  Flushing,  in  1762, 
the  white  congregation  had  increased  from  twenty  to 
eighty.  At  Jamaica,  Mr.  Seabury  reported  to  the  Society 
that  there  were  120  families  in  communion  with  the 
Church  and  twenty-nine  communicants.  The  families  of 
Dissenters  at  the  same  time  amounted  to  500.  In  1764 
he  had  baptized  at  one  time  "ten  adults  who  gave  a  good 
account  of  their  faith."  In  1765,  after  Jamaica  and  Flush- 
ing had  been  visited  by  Mr.  Whitfield,  and  the  effects  of 
his  tenets  and  preaching  duly  considered,  Mr.  Seabury 
found  that  none  of  his  own  people  had  been  led  away, 
while  many  of  them  had  become  more  serious  and  devout. 
Mr.  Seabury's  sober  judgment  was  that  where  there  had 
been  the  greatest  number  of  Quakers  among  the  first 
settlers  of  the  country,  there  infidelity  and  disregard  to  all 
religion  has  taken  the  deepest  root;  the  religious  principles 
of  the  other  inhabitants  were  weakened  and  religion  re- 
garded with  indifference. 

The  provident  churchmanship  of  Mr.  Seabury  brought 
about  the  incorporation  of  the  parishes  under  his  charge. 
Under  date  of  April  8,  1761,  application  was  made  to  the 
civil  authority  in  the  Colony  of  New  York  for  a  charter  of 
the  parish  of  Jamaica.  It  was  signed  by  Samuel  Seabury, 
minister,  and  twenty  laymen,  ''inhabitants  of  the  town  of 
Jamaica  on  Nassau  Island,  Communicants  and  professors 
of  the  Church  of  England  by  law  established."  It  nar- 
rates that  a  Church  was  erected  in  Jamaica  by  voluntary 
subscription,  that  it  was  in  need  of  repairs,  and  that  there 
was  danger  that  moneys  contributed  for  church  purposes 
would  be  improperly  applied  for  want  of  persons  ap- 
pointed with  legal  authority,  to  superintend  its  affairs. 


OF   GRACE   CHURCH  93 

The  prayer  for  a  charter  was  made  to  Hon.  Cadwallader 
Colden,  President  of  His  Majesty's  Council  and  Com- 
mander in  Chief  of  the  Province  of  New  York.  (N.  Y. 
Doc.  History,  III,  324.) 

The  Charter  was  granted  the  same  year.  It  empowered 
the  Church  of  England  in  Jamaica  to  receive  legacies  and 
gifts,  manage  its  temporal  affairs  and  have  a  Vestry  of  its 
own  elected  by  and  out  of  its  communicants. 

There  was  now  a  double  set  of  vestrymen,  one  elected 
by  the  voters  of  the  three  parishes,  in  accordance  with  the 
general  law,  and  the  other  by  those  in  communion  of  the 
Church  of  England.  This  affected  the  collection  of  funds 
for  the  support  of  the  rector,  and  threw  the  responsibility 
on  the  communicants  and  Vestry  in  the  Church,  in  each 
parish.  Of  the  £60  currency  pledged  to  Mr.  Seabury's 
support,  £20  were  paid  by  the  Flushing  church,  and  the 
rest  by  Jamaica  and  Newtown.  To  this  the  £50  sterling 
given  by  the  Society  in  England,  was  added,  making  the 
value  of  the  stipend  received  by  Mr.  Seabury,  as  estimated 
on  a  gold  standard  of  the  present  day,  to  be  about  500 
dollars. 

Mr.  Seabury,  at  the  beginning  of  his  settlement  in 
Jamaica,  purchased  a  farm  half  a  mile  east  of  the  village, 
containing  twenty-eight  acres.  He  had  fourteen  acres 
additional  of  orchard,  and  eight  acres  of  salt  meadow.  He 
was  conveniently  near  to  the  Church  and  had  a  prosper- 
ous outlook  in  the  first  years  of  his  ministry  at  Jamaica, 
being  28  years  of  age,  strong  in  body,  and  vigorous  in 
health.  But  his  family  increased  rapidly;  five  of  his  seven 
children  were  born  in  Jamaica.  To  the  cares  of  his  farm 
essential  to  his  support,  were  added  the  difficulties  encoun- 
tered in  his  three  parishes,  where  there  was  much  indiffer- 


94  ORIGIN    AND    HISTORY 

ence  and  discontent,  and  not  a  few  jealousies  to  contend 
with  from  those  who  were  prominent  in  church  affairs. 
Among-  these  was  a  notable  controversy  over  his  parochial 
rights  invaded  by  the  introduction  of  a  Mr.  Treadwell 
through  the  influence  of  a  prominent  layman,  Mr.  Aspin- 
wall.  This  minister,  without  application  or  notice  to  Mr. 
Seabury,  gave  a  family  baptism  in  Jamaica,  and  held  ser- 
vices in  Flushing.  The  correspondence  remonstrating 
with  and  defending  these  ministrations  was  published  in 
the  New  York  newspaper,  and  much  bitterness  engendered 
thereby;  and  by  the  measures  taken  to  complete  the 
Church  at  Flushing,  in  1760.  The  salary  was  but  par- 
tially paid;  the  support  gained  from  farm  and  parishes 
was  insufficient,  the  advantage  enjoyed  by  the  proximity 
of  his  father  in  Hempstead  was  lost,  through  the  senior 
Seabury's  sickness  and  death.  These  considerations  led 
to  the  resignation  of  his  rectorship  and  assuming  that  of 
St.  Peter's  Church,  Westchester,  where  he  was  instituted 
Dec.  3,  1766,  and  where  he  remained  as  missionary  of  the 
Society  until  1771. 

The  history  of  the  Long  Island  Churches  is  not  related 
to  Mr.  Seabury's  prominence  as  a  loyal  subject  of  Great 
Britain  in  the  Revolution,  nor  with  his  distinguished 
career  as  Bishop  of  Connecticut.  He  received  the  degree 
of  Doctor  of  Divinity  from  Oxford  University  in  1777, 
shortly  after  he  was  driven  from  his  mission  by  revolu- 
tionists and  made  a  prisoner  in  New  Haven.  However, 
the  next  year  he  resumed  his  ministry  in  Staten  Island,  and 
continued  there  till  1782.  Elected  Bishop  by  the  Episco- 
pal Clergy  of  Connecticut,  he  received  ordination  from  the 
Bishops  of  the  Church  of  Scotland.  Mr.  Seabury  died  of 
apoplexy  Feb.  26,  1796,  and  was  buried  in  New  London, 
Connecticut. 


Right  Rev.  Samuel  Seabury,  First  American  Bishop. 

.(From  "Life  of   Bishop   Seabury,"   by  permission  of  the  author 

William  J.  Seabury.  D.  D.) 


OF   GRACE   CHURCH  95 

CHAPTER  X. 

The  Ministry  of  Rev.  Joshua  Bloomer — 1769-1790. 

There  were  three  years  following  Rev.  Mr.  Seabury's 
removal  to  West  Chester  when  the  Jamaica  mission  was 
left  without  a  missionary  from  the  Society.  The  three 
congregations  could  not  unite  in  making  an  application. 
Some  serious  alienations  had  arisen,  and  yet  by  reason  of 
its  proximity  to  New  York,  the  Capital  of  the  Province,  the 
mission  was  considered  of  great  importance. 

The  number  of  communicants  in  the  three  towns  was 
lamentably  small.  The  adherents  of  the  Church  were  in 
some  instances  affiliated  with  those  who  were  disaffected 
with  the  English  Government.  The  resistance  to  the  pay- 
ing of  the  salary  of  £60,  due  from  the  parish,  was  displeas- 
ing to  the  Society.  Among  the  clergy  who  were  invited 
to  officiate  temporarily  at  Jamaica  was  the  Rev.  Charles 
Inglis,  who  harmonized  the  members  of  the  three  congre- 
gations; the  congregations  agreed  upon  the  selection 
of  Rev.  Joshua  Bloomer  as  Mr.  Seabury's  successor,  and 
a  few  influential  persons  persuaded  the  Society  in  England 
to  give  him  an  appointment  and  a  salary,  reduced,  how- 
ever, to  £30. 

Mr.  Bloomer  was  a  young  man,  studious  and  reputable, 
who  desired  to  enter  the  ministry.  He  had  received  the 
degree  of  Master  of  Arts  from  Columbia  College  in  1758, 
and  being  highly  commended  by  Rev.  Dr.  Johnson  and 
others  in  America,  he  was  ordained  by  the  Bishop  of  Lon- 
don Feb.  28,  1769,  and  sailed  from  Downs  March  19, 


96  ORIGIN    AND    HISTORY 

1769,  at  a  time  when  political  dissensions  arising  from  the 
passage  of  the  Stamp  Act  were  disturbing  the  country. 

He  arrived  at  Jamaica  in  May  and  was  kindly  received, 
finding  there  a  well  finished  church  building,  ana  two  small 
ones  at  Flushing  and  Newtown.  There  were  39  com- 
municants in  the  three  Churches,  who  rallied  to  his  sup- 
port, and  he  was  highly  esteemed  by  the  peoples  in  the 
three  communities,  who  treated  him  with  kindness  and 
respect  whatever  their  religious  persuasions.  The  Churches 
were  filled  as  he  ministered  to  them  alternately,  and  there 
was  but  one  suit  against  the  parish  necessary  to  settle  the 
payment  of  the  £6o  stipend  due,  and  enforced  by  the 
Chancellor's  decree.  It  was  determined  to  furnish  the 
rector  with  a  glebe,  and  a  lottery  scheme  was  carried 
through  with  great  enthusiasm,  for  the  purchase  of  the 
farm  of  William  Creed,  a  mile  west  of  the  village,  at  a  cost 
of  £800.  It  contained  seventy-eight  acres  of  arable  land, 
orchard,  and  buildings  which  needed  repair  and  improve- 
ment, which  cost  the  Rev.  Mr.  Bloomer  £79,  I9s.  9d.  The 
glebe  was  not  a  success  and  it  was  soon  advertised  for  sale. 

On  Easter  Tuesday,  1773,  the  Vestry  voted  to  purchase 
a  pall,  for  funerals,  for  the  use  of  which  4s.  should  be  paid 
by  those  who  did  not  subscribe,  and  the  Sexton  to  deduct 
from  it  one  shilling  for  his  care  and  furnishing  it.  This 
was  the  beginning  of  a  valuable  record  by  Mr.  Aaron  Van 
Nostrand,  which  is  preserved  in  this  history,  for  informa- 
tion nowhere  else  to  be  obtained  as  to  dates  and  persons 
buried  in  Jamaica.  It  contains  116  entries  of  interments 
and  funeral  bills,  for  the  fees  for  which  the  Sexton  ac- 
counted to  the  Vestry. 

Mr.  Bloomer  continued  in  charge  through  the  trying 
period  of  the  Revolution,  in  which  many  of  his  people  were 


OF   GRACE    CHURCH  97 

involved  in  great  troubles  through  arrests  and  confiscations 
of  property;  but,  though  often  prevented  from  conducting 
services,  he  continued  to  administer  as  frequently  as  pos- 
sible the  sacraments  of  holy  communion  and  baptism. 
When  the  principal  members  of  his  congregation  at  Ja- 
maica refused  to  obey  the  decrees  of  Congress,  and  were 
imprisoned  and  detained  for  several  weeks,  Mr.  Bloomer 
writes:  'M  administered  the  sacrament  at  Newtown,  where 
I  had  but  four  or  five  male  communicants,  the  rest  being 
driven  off  or  carried  away  prisoners.  I  was  forbidden  to 
read  the  prayers  for  the  King  and  Royal  Family.  On  con- 
sulting my  Wardens  and  Vestry,  rather  than  omit  any 
portion  of  the  liturgy,  we  shut  up  our  Church  for  five  Sun- 
days: but  on  the  arrival  of  the  King's  troops,  services  were 
resumed,  and  in  1777  I  had  sixty-six  communicants,  and 
since  my  last  letter  have  baptized  24  infants  and  2  adults." 

In  1781,  he  was  still  holding  the  interest  and  affection  of 
his  congregation,  and  had  baptized  29  infants  and  two 
adults  and  married  thirteen  couples.  This  was  his  last 
report. 

The  prayer  book  used  by  Rev.  Mr.  Bloomer,  in  Flushing, 
during  the  Revolutionary  period,  is  still  preserved  in  St. 
George's  Church.  Compelled  at  last  to  pray  for  Congress 
and  the  Presidents,  he  pasted  the  prayer  in  manuscript  over 
the  one  for  the  King. 

Mr.  Bloomer,  with  singular  fidelity,  courage  and  self- 
restraint,  maintained  his  position  as  a  loyal  minister  of  the 
Church  of  England,  when  the  passions  of  war  were  raging 
in  the  hearts  of  men  around  him,  and  his  parishes  were 
alternately  in  the  possession  of  forces  of  England,  and  of 
the  Rebellion. 


98  ORIGIN    AND    HISTORY 

A  chapter  of  grievances  of  the  Clergy  in  Long  Island  and 
New  York  at  the  hand  of  patriots  of  the  American  Revolu- 
tion could  be  easily  written.  The  steadfast  loyalists  had  to 
suffer  the  fortunes  of  war  when  it  ended  in  the  triumph  of 
the  patriots,  who,  through  the  whole  extent  of  Long  Island, 
had  been  driven  from  their  homes  during  its  occupation  by 
the  British  troops.  After  the  7000  or  8000  British  troops 
had  been  removed,  most  of  whom  were  in  camps  and  bar- 
racks in  the  parishes  of  Jamaica,  Hempstead,  Newtown 
and  Flushing,  there  was  an  emigration  of  loyalists  to 
Canada.  In  1782-3  there  were  more  than  3000  persons 
carried  to  New  Brunswick,  Canada,  from  Queens  County, 
in  one  fleet  of  twenty  square-rigged  vessels.  They  founded 
the  City  of  St.  John. 

New  York  was  specially  bitter  against  the  loyalists.  The 
Committee  of  Safety  compelled  unconforming  clergy- 
men of  the  Church  of  England  to  close  or  leave  their 
churches  if  they  would  not  omit  the  prayers  for  the  King 
and  Royal  family.  Those  who  were  found  aiding  the 
British  officers  and  soldiers,  or  denouncing  the  patriots, 
were  arrested  and  exiled.  The  sufferings  of  their  families, 
through  the  loss  of  their  homes  and  effects,  was  very  great. 
Their  churches  closed,  their  property  destroyed,  their 
friends  and  sympathizers  exiled,  and  their  neighbors  hos- 
tile and  making  them  obnoxious  to  the  community  by  their 
accusations,  there  was  no  hope  left  of  favor  or  returning 
prosperity  in  the  Province.  The  members  of  the  Church 
of  England  specially  suffered  in  New  York.  Although 
many  of  the  Dutch  had  opposed  the  war,  they  were  not 
persecuted  nor  their  homes  nor  churches  violated.  No 
injury  was  done  to  them. 

Rev.  Charles  Inglis,  in  a  long  letter  to  the  Society,  from 
New  York,  writes,  in  illustration  of  the  spirit  of  the  times: 


OF   GRACE    CHURCH  99 

"Soon  after  Washington's  arrival,  he  attended  our 
Church:  but  on  Sunday  morning  before  Divine  Service 
began,  one  of  the  rebel  Generals  called  at  the  rector's 
house,  (supposing  the  latter  was  in  town)  and,  not  finding 
him  left  word  that  he  came  to  inform  the  rector  that  Gen- 
eral Washington  would  be  glad  if  the  violent  prayers  for 
the  King  and  Royal  family  were  omitted.  This  message 
was  brought  to  me,  and  as  you  may  suppose,  I  paid  no 
regard  to  it. 

"On  seeing  that  General  long  after,  I  remonstrated 
against  the  unreasonableness  of  his  request,  which  he  must 
know  the  Clergy  could  not  comply  with:  and  told  him  fur- 
ther, that  it  was  in  his  power  to  shut  up  our  churches,  but 
by  no  means  in  his  power  to  make  the  clergy  depart  from 
their  duty.  This  declaration  drew  from  him  an  awkward 
apology  for  his  conduct,  which  I  believe  was  not  author- 
ized by  Washington."* 

Rev.  Mr.  Inglis  states  that  on  May  17,  1776,  appointed 
by  Congress  as  a  day  of  public  fasting,  prayer  and  humilia- 
tion throughout  the  Continent,  not  only  the  Church  in 
New  York,  but  all  but  two  in  the  Province,  and  so  far  as 
he  could  learn,  "throughout  all  the  thirteen  Colonies  as 
they  are  called,  were  opened  on  this  occasion." 

He  continued:  "Matters  became  now  critical  in  the  high- 
est degree;  the  rebel  army  amounted  to  near  30,000.  All 
their  cannon  and  military  stores  were  drawn  hither,  and 
they  boasted  that  the  place  was  impregnable.  I  have  fre- 
quently heard  myself  called  a  Tory,  and  traitor  to  my 
Country,  as  I  passed  the  streets,  and  epithets  joined  to 
each,  which  decency  forbids  me  to  set  down.    Violent 

*Hawkin's  Historical  Notices  of  the  Missions  of  the  Church  of 
England,  p.  333. 


100  ORIGIN    AND    HISTORY 

threats  were  thrown  against  us,  in  case  the  King  were  any 
longer  prayed  for.  One  Sunday  when  I  was  officiating, 
and  had  proceeded  some  length  in  the  service,  a  company 
of  about  one  hundred  armed  rebels  marched  into  the 
church,  with  drums  beating  and  fifes  playing,  their  guns 
loaded  and  bayonets  fixed,  as  if  going  to  battle.  The  con- 
gregation was  thrown  into  the  utmost  terror,  and  several 
women  fainted,  expecting  a  massacre  was  intended.  I 
took  no  notice  of  them,  and  went  on  with  the  service,  only 
exerted  my  voice,  which  was  in  some  measure  drowned  by 
the  noise  and  tumult.  The  rebels  stood  thus  in  the  aisle 
for  near  fifteen  minutes,  till  being  asked  into  the  pews  by 
the  sexton,  they  complied;  still,  however,  the  people  ex- 
pected that,  when  the  collects  for  the  King  and  royal 
family  were  read,  I  should  be  fired  at,  as  menaces  to  that 
purpose  had  been  frequently  flung  out.  The  matter,  how- 
ever, passed  over  without  any  accident.  Nothing  of  this 
kind  happened  before  or  since,  which  made  it  more  re- 
markable. I  was  afterwards  assured  that  something  hostile 
and  violent  was  intended;  but  He  that  stills  the  raging  of 
the  sea,  and  madness  of  the  people,  overruled  their  pur- 
pose, whatever  it  was." 

After  the  Declaration  of  Independence,  which  occurred 
about  two  months  after  this  event,  the  Clergy  closed  their 
churches  in  New  York  and  vicinity,  having  been  requested 
by  the  Committee  of  Safety  to  take  down  the  King's  arms, 
to  avoid  their  destruction  by  a  mob.  They  refused  to  open 
their  Churches  at  the  request  of  rebel  officers,  that  they 
might  have  services  there.  After  the  occupation  of  the 
city  by  the  British  forces  under  General  Howe,  the 
Churches  were  all  opened  and  Divine  Service  given  for 
the  rejoicing  citizens  who  were  left  in  the  city. 


OF   GRACE    CHURCH  101 

But  the  same  week  the  rebels  succeeded  in  destroying 
1000  houses  or  one-fourth  of  the  city  by  fire.  Trinity 
Church,  the  rector's  house,  and  the  Charity  School  were 
burned  and  about  200  buildings  belonging  to  Trinity  Cor- 
poration, were  consumed  at  a  loss  of  £25,000  sterling. 

The  missionaries  were  unable  to  draw  their  salaries,  or 
to  receive  other  money  sent  to  their  relief  from  England. 
All  communications  by  letter  were  cut  oflf,  Messrs.  Sea- 
bury,  Bloomer  and  Cutting  were  mentioned  as  the  only 
ones  who  could  be  relieved  from  the  distress  which  came 
upon  all  the  other  clergy  in  the  Colonies  from  this  failure 
of  their  salaries. 

Rev.  Mr.  Bloomer  sent  the  last  report  of  Grace  Church 
to  the  Society  for  the  Propagation  of  the  Gospel  in  1 784. 
The  last  grant  of  £30  was  made  by  the  Society  Feb.  20, 
1784. 

The  revolt  of  the  American  Colonies  had  scattered  the 
Clergy  representing  the  Society.  Many  gave  up  their 
missions,  returning  to  England  or  becoming  refugees  in 
the  towns  of  the  northern  colonies,  or  in  Canada.  A  few 
took  the  oath  of  allegiance  to  the  Republic.  After  the 
acknowledgment  of  the  Independence  of  the  United  States 
the  charter  of  the  Society  did  not  allow  the  continued  sup- 
port of  missions  outside  the  British  Dominion. 

The  report  of  the  Society  for  1785  expresses  the  deep 
regret  of  its  officers  and  members  in  parting  with  the 
clergy  and  the  Churches  for  whom  they  had  made  many 
prayers  and  sacrifices  of  time  and  money.  The  report 
says: 

"It  is  so  far  from  their  thoughts  to  alienate  their  aifec- 
tions  from  their  brethren  of  the  Church  of  England,  now 


102  ORIGIN    AND    HISTORY 

under  another  government,  that  they  look  back,  with 
comfort  at  the  good  they  have  done,  for  many  years  past, 
in  propagating  our  holy  religion,  as  it  is  professed  by  the 
Established  Church  of  England,  and  it  is  their  earnest  wish 
and  prayer  that  their  zeal  may  continue  to  bring  forth  the 
fruit  they  aimed  at,  of  pure  religion  and  virtue:  and  that 
the  true  members  of  our  Church,  under  whatever  civil 
government  they  live,  may  not  cease  to  be  kindly  aflfec- 
tioned  towards  us." 

When  the  war  was  declared  between  England  and  the 
Colonies,  the  Society  were  contributing  an  average  sum 
of  £40  sterling  a  year  each  to  nearly  eighty  missionaries. 
These  were  widely  scattered  as  well  as  impoverished. 
"Some  of  the  clergy  were  eventually  appointed  to  Chap- 
laincies in  the  King's  army;  others  were  provided  with 
missions  in  Canada,  Nova  Scotia,  and  New  Brunswick: 
some  went  to  England,  whilst  a  few,  who  were  recom- 
mended for  long  service,  or  disabled  by  age  and  infirmity, 
were  allowed  a  small  annuity  by  the  Society."* 

The  clerical  and  lay  deputies  of  the  Church  in  sundry 
of  the  United  States  of  America  made  this  grateful  ac- 
knowledgment to  the  Archbishops  and  Bishops  of  the 
Church  of  England,  in  an  address,  dated  Oct.  5,  1785: 

''All  the  Bishops  of  England,  with  other  distinguished 
characters,  as  well  ecclesiastical  as  civil,  have  concurred 
in  forming  and  carrying  on  the  benevolent  views  of  the 
Society  for  Propagating  the  Gospel  in  Foreign  Parts:  a 
Society  to  whom  under  God,  the  prosperity  of  our  church 
is,  in  an  eminent  degree,  to  be  ascribed.  It  is  our  earnest 
wish  to  be  permitted  to  make,  through  your  lordships,  this 
just  acknowledgment  to  that  Venerable  Society." 

♦Hawkin's  Notices,  p.  343,  345. 


OF  GRACE   CHURCH  103 

The  separation  of  the  Society  from  Churches  in  Jamaica 
and  Newtown  was  the  beginning  of  new  struggles  for 
existence.  The  very  name  of  the  Church  of  England  as 
associated  with  them  was  a  discredit  in  the  new  order  of 
society  under  the  Republic.  The  support  of  the  English 
Army  men  who  had  been  stationed  in  Long  Island  was 
missed.  The  devastations  of  war  had  been  going  on 
around  the  Churches,  which  were  greatly  out  of  repair, 
and  yet  the  members  of  the  parishes  were  too  impover- 
ished and  discouraged  with  their  own  atfairs  to  renew 
them  without  great  effort. 

The  rector.  Rev.  Doctor  Bloomer,  however,  remained, 
and  was  personally  greatly  esteemed.  In  the  summer  of 
1786,  in  accordance  with  the  resolution  of  the  Church 
Wardens  and  Vestry  of  Grace  Church,  at  their  annual 
meeting,  a  subscription  was  made  by  twenty  of  the  parish- 
ioners amounting  to  £42;  5s.  for  shingling,  painting,  and 
other  necessary  repairs  "for  rendering  the  church  decent 
and  fit  for  public  worship." 

In  1788  there  was  expended  by  Mr.  Bloomer  in  repair- 
ing the  glebe  £83,  I3s.,  lid.  The  money  received  from 
collections,  pall  and  bell,  from  1775  to  1782  was  £148, 
l5s.,  2d.  The  church  held  bonds  of  individuals  amount- 
ing to  £248,  13s.,  drawing  interest  at  6  per  cent. 

The  Communion  offerings  for  five  years,  from  1775  to 
1790,  amounted  to  £80,  7s.,  1  d. 

In  1 790,  a  few  months  before  his  death,  the  degree  of 
Doctor  of  Divinity  was  conferred  upon  Mr.  Bloomer  by 
Columbia  College.  Doctor  Bloomer  died  June  23,  1790, 
at  the  age  of  fifty-five,  sincerely  regretted  and  respected 
by  all  the  people  to  whom  he  ministered.  He  was  buried 
in  the  chancel,  but  his  grave  is  unmarked. 


104  ORIGIN    AND    HISTORY 

The  conditions  of  living  in  the  period  when  Rev.  Mr. 
Bloomer  was  rector  in  Jamaica  have  been,  with  great 
inquiry  and  research,  described  in  the  history  of  Flush- 
ing by  Rev.  Henry  D.  Waller. 

The  communications  with  New  York  were  slow  and 
uncertain,  and  were  generally  by  way  of  Brooklyn.  The 
ferries  were  accomplished  in  row-boats,  scows,  or  two- 
masted  vessels  that  required,  with  favorable  wind  and 
tide,  an  hour  for  the  passage.  There  was  no  post-office 
on  Long  Island.  A  private  post  rider  went  down  the 
island  and  back  once  in  two  weeks.  The  dress  of  the 
gentry  was,  for  men  the  short  knee  breeches,  pointed  toe 
shoes  with  large  buckles,  and  a  long-tailed,  light-colored 
coat  with  silver  buttons;  for  ladies,  the  dress  was  a  full 
brocaded  skirt,  hung  on  large  hoops,  two  feet  wide  on  each 
side,  a  towering  hat  or  a  muskmelon  buchet.  The  farm- 
er's homespun  was  changed  on  Sunday  to  a  broadcloth 
suit  that  descended  from  father  to  son.  He  cultivated  his 
fields  with  a  wooden  plow  and  reaped  them  with  a  scythe, 
and  threshed  them  with  a  flail.  The  usual  house  was  with- 
out paint  or  carpets,  and  the  coarse  plain  food  was  pre- 
pared by  the  wife  and  daughter,  whose  constant  compan- 
ions were  the  spinning-wheel  and  loom.  The  day  laborer 
was  dressed  in  yellow  buckskin  or  leathern  breeches  and 
apron,  checked  shirt  and  red  jacket,  and  heavy  shoes  with 
brass  buckles. 

The  debtor's  prison  was  a  frequent  lodging  place,  where 
men  and  women  herded  together,  and  the  criminal  and 
debtor  often  perished  without  bed  or  clothing  to  cover 
them.  The  currency  of  the  Colonies  varied  in  the  num- 
ber of  shillings,  and  pence  which  made  a  dollar.  The 
school-houses  were  small,  and  neither  painted,  ceiled  nor 
plastered.    The  wood  was  furnished  by  farmers,  and  the 


OF   GRACE    CHURCH 


105 


boy  pupils  cut  it,  while  the  girls  swept  and  scrubbed  the 
school-room  floor.  There  were  few  books,  and  the  sums 
of  arithmetic  were  copied  into^iphering  books  by  the 
pupils.  There  were  neither  steepens,  writing  books  nor 
ruled  paper;  the  quill  pens- were  made  by  the  master  and 
the  sheets  were  ruled  with  a  piece  of  lead. 

Jamaica  was  the  shire  town.  All  elections  were  held  in 
Jamaica  until  1 789,  for  the  neighboring  towns  of  Queens 
County. 


Rood  Screen. 

Memorial  to  Rev.  Gilbert  H.  Sayres,  S.  T.  D., 

By  His  Grandson, 

Gilbert  B.  Sayres,  ifli4. 


At  Grace  Church,  Jamaica,  X.  Y.,  on 
June  14th,  a  handsome  rood  screen  made  of 
oak  was  dedicated  to  the  memory  of  the  Rev. 
Gilbert  Hunt  Sayres,  D.D.,  rector  of  this  par- 
ish 1810-1830.  The  Rev.  Dr.  William  S. 
Sayres  of  Detroit,  a  grandson,  preached  the 
sermon.  The  screen  was  given  by  another 
grandson,  Mr.  Gilbert  B.  Sayres,  junior  war- 
den of  the  parish. 


IV 

THE  POST-REVOLUTIONARY 
RECTORSHIPS— 1795-1896 


OF   GRACE    CHURCH  109 


CHAPTER  XI. 

Short  Rectorships  in  a  Period  of  Thirty-five  Years — 

1795-1830. 

REV.  WILLIAM  HAMMELL. 

The  Rev.  William  Hammell,  from  Hackensack,  New 
Jersey,  was  the  successor  to  Doctor  Bloomer.  He  was 
elected  Aug.  1,  1790,  by  the  three  Vestries  of  Jamaica, 
Flushing  and  Newtown,  and  was  the  last  rector  elected  and 
supported  conjointly  by  these  Churches.  He  received 
Holy  Orders  as  Deacon  and  Priest  the  same  year  of  his 
election  to  Jamaica.  The  glebe  had  been  sold,  on  account 
of  a  dispute  between  the  three  parishes,  and  the  interest 
money,  amounting  to  £25,  was  pledged  to  him  and  £90 
per  year  from  the  three  towns. 

There  were  but  21  communicants  in  Grace  Church,  27 
at  Newtown,  and  13  in  Flushing.  The  Churches  were 
weak  and  dispirited,  the  salary  insufficient  for  the  support 
of  Mr.  Hammell,  who  had  married,  infidelity  prevailed  in 
the  communities,  and  political  and  personal  rancor.  The 
rector's  eyesight  failed  him  and  he  became  paralytic  after 
five  years  of  his  ministry.  These  distressing  conditions 
led  to  his  resignation,  and  a  donation  was  made  for  Mr. 
Hammell  by  the  three  Churches  for  his  temporary  support. 
They  also  drew  up  a  memorial  to  the  Corporation  of 
Trinity  Church  in  his  behalf.  That  Vestry  subsequently 
gave  him  a  pension  of  £100  per  year,  which  was  continued 
for  thirty  years  till  his  death. 


110  ORIGIN   AND    HISTORY 

An  effort  to  settle  Mr.  Charles  Seabury,  son  of  Bishop 
Seabury,  who  had  recently  been  ordained  Deacon,  was 
unsuccessful.  Mr.  Seabury  served  only  six  weeks  on  trial, 
when  he  received  notice  of  his  father's  death  at  New  Lon- 
don, and  went  home.  He  wrote  from  New  London  that 
he  would  not  return  to  Jamaica. 

REV.  ELIJAH  DUNHAM  RATOON. 

Rev.  Elijah  Dunham  Ratoon  succeeded  to  the  rectorship 
of  Grace  Church  and  St.  George's,  Flushing,  which  still 
was  supported  conjointly  by  these  Churches,  while  St. 
James,  Newtown,  had  become  independent  in  1795.  Mr. 
Ratoon  was  a  graduate  of  Princeton  College,  and  was  or- 
dained Deacon  Jan.  10,  1790.  He  married  a  daughter  of 
Rev.  Dr.  Beech  of  New  York,  and  for  a  short  time  minis- 
tered to  St.  Ann's  Church,  in  Brooklyn.  He  was  a  Pro- 
fessor of  ancient  languages  in  Columbia  College  from 
1792  to  1797,  and  came  from  this  position  to  Jamaica. 

The  Church  Wardens  and  Vestry  of  Grace  Church  made 
a  joint  arrangement  with  Trinity  Church,  New  York,  for 
the  support  of  Mr.  Ratoon,  agreeing  to  ''give  him  the  use 
and  interest  of  £900  during  the  time  he  is  rector  and  dis- 
charges the  duties,  and  do  covenant  to  raise  annually  £100 
by  subscription  for  his  maintenance,  on  condition  that 
divine  service  is  performed  in  our  Church  every  other  Sun- 
day during  the  three  months  and  every  Sunday  morning 
during  the  remainder  of  the  year." 

At  a  time  when  Grace  Church  seemed  to  be  struggling 
for  existence,  so  impoverished  were  the  Churchmen  of 
this  period,  and  so  inimical  the  spirit  of  the  country  to  the 
Episcopal  Church,  which  had  inherited  the  rights  and  prop- 


OF   GRACE    CHURCH  111 

erty  and  associations  of  the  Church  of  England,  the  Hon. 
Rufus  King,  a  noted  statesman  and  patriot,  established  his 
family  in  Jamaica. 

As  a  Vestryman  of  Trinity  Church  he  had  become  inter- 
ested in  the  parish  affairs.  Grace  Church  had,  from  the 
beginning,  often  received  her  ministers  and  counsel  in  all 
her  difficulties  from  the  rectors  and  the  staff  of  Trinity 
Church,  and  had  been  closely  affiliated  with  the  move- 
ments which  were  taken  by  Trinity  to  maintain  and  extend 
the  influence  of  the  Church  in  America. 

It  was  through  the  efforts  of  Mr.  King  that  Trinity  Cor- 
poration came  to  the  aid  of  the  Churches  in  Queens 
County,  Jamaica,  Newtown,  Flushing  and  Hempstead. 
Trinity  Church  assigned  to  Grace  Church  £500  in  securi- 
ties, which  were  added  to  a  similar  fund  of  £60  which 
Grace  Church  already  possessed,  forming  the  nucleus  of  a 
fund  which  has  continued  to  increase.  Three  city  lots 
were  also  given,  which  in  a  short  time  yielded  rentals  and 
became  very  valuable.  Similar  donations  were  made  to 
St.  George's  and  St.  James  Churches  with  a  forethought 
that  contributed  to  their  subsequent  endowment  and  large 
efficiency. 

A  Church  glebe  was  bought  at  a  cost  of  £300,  and  £100 
additional  was  invested  in  repairs.  It  had  a  small  house 
and  stable,  and  was  rented  at  £24  a  year.  This  land  was 
on  the  Flushing  road  in  the  rear  of  the  Town  Hall.  An 
effort  was  made  to  put  the  Church  funds  in  a  better  condi- 
tion, interest  having  accrued  on  bonds  unpaid  for  from  ten 
to  fifteen  years.  These  bonds  were  settled  and  the  funds 
increased  by  a  legacy  of  £100  from  Miss  Sarah  Depeyster. 

The  salary  of  Mr.  Ratoon  was  $500,  with  the  use  of  a 
glebe  and  the  interest  on  about  $4,500.    The  rector's 


112  ORIGIN    AND    HISTORY 

home  stood  on  the  high  land  between  Jamaica  and  Flush- 
ing, on  the  main  road  to  Flushing,  now  occupied  by  one 
of  the  reformatory  institutions  of  New  York  City,  with 
extensive  buildings  erected  nearly  a  century  later.  The 
rectory  was  then  a  new  house,  44x30  feet,  two  stories  and 
a  half  high.  It  was  surrounded  by  1 10  acres  in  farm  land, 
with  extensive  orchards  of  fruit  trees,  among  which  were 
1200  peach  trees.  The  house  commanded  a  view  of  New- 
town, Flushing,  the  Sound,  Westchester  and  the  Jersey 
shore,  and  was  approached  through  a  stately  avenue  of 
trees. 

The  Right  Rev.  Samuel  Provost  was  then  Bishop  of  New 
York,  and  Grace  Church  was  represented  by  three  dele- 
gates in  the  Diocesan  Convention.  There  she  stood  as 
second  only  to  Trinity  Church,  in  age  of  organization,  in 
the  Diocese. 

In  the  summer  of  1 799,  the  interior  of  the  Church  build- 
ing was  painted  entirely  white,  with  top  rails  to  the  pews 
of  mahogany  color,  and  the  steeple  was  raised.  Blinds 
were  put  upon  the  exterior  two  years  later,  and  with  an 
able  rector  and  renewed  church  building  the  century's 
work  was  hopefully  inaugurated. 

The  original  Stone  Church  of  Jamaica  built  in  1699,  a 
hundred  years  earlier,  and  over  the  possession  of  which 
were  such  hot  contentions,  was  still  standing  in  the  high- 
way. It  was  in  such  good  condition  that  it  could  be  used 
on  Feb.  22,  1800,  for  anniversary  exercises  commemor- 
ating the  birthday  and  eminent  virtues  of  the  late  Presi- 
dent, George  Washington.  In  this  celebration  the  Rev. 
Mr.  Ratoon  took  part,  and  Mr.  L.  A.  Eigenbrodt  delivered 
the  oration.  He  was  the  father  of  the  Rev.  Samuel  R. 
Eigenbrodt,  D.  D.,  a  professor  of  the  General  Theological 


The  Rectory  Between  Flushing  and  Jamaica,   1794. 


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OF   GRACE   CHURCH  113 

Seminary,  and  the  donor  of  its  stately  dormitory,  Eigen- 
brodt  Hall. 

That  Church  was  not  taken  down  till  1818,  when  all  the 
relics  of  burials  within  its  walls  were  removed  to  the  village 
cemetery. 

The  acceptable  and  prospering  ministry  of  Mr.  Ratoon 
was,  unhappily  to  Grace  Church,  not  long  continued.  He 
resigned  his  rectorship  June  4,  1802,  and  went  to  take 
charge  of  St.  Paul's  Church,  Baltimore.  He  subsequently 
became  President  of  Charleston  College,  South  Carolina, 
where  he  died  of  yellow  fever  in  1810. 

The  Church  was  much  discouraged  by  Mr.  Ratoon's 
departure.  There  were  nearly  a  hundred  names  on  the 
sut3scription  lists  for  salary  in  the  next  eight  years,  but 
Grace  Church  did  not  thrive.  Political  contentions  were 
rife,  and  reacted  on  religious  conditions.  There  were 
£1,126  available  funds,  for  the  support  of  the  Church. 
Offerings  were  taken  for  the  support  of  the  two  Bishops, 
Right  Reverends  Benjamin  Moore,  and  John  Henry 
Hobart,  and  the  Missionary  Society  of  the  Diocese.  Yet 
there  were  only  thirty  baptisms  in  the  ten  years  which 
began  the  century.  The  first  confirmation  service  held  in 
Jamaica  was  by  Bishop  Moore,  who  on  Oct.  15,  1808, 
confirmed  thirty  persons.  On  July  3,  1814,  at  a  visitation 
of  Bishop  Hobart,  twenty-three  were  added  to  the  com- 
municants of  the  Church. 

In  1803  the  Vestry  adopted  a  resolution  that  the  holders 
of  pews  in  the  Church  should  give  a  reasonable  compensa- 
tion for  the  support  of  the  Church,  and  that  where  sittings 
in  a  pew  were  not  used  by  one  family  they  should  accom- 
modate another  family  or  individuals,  who  would  be 


114  ORIGIN   AND   HISTORY 

agreeable.    There  were  thirty-one  pews  besides  four  in  the 
belfry  for  the  blacks. 

In  Onderdonk's  "Antiquities"  are  recorded  the  names  of 
the  pew  holders  at  the  beginning  of  the  Nineteenth  Cen- 
tury, through  which  with  remarkable  persistence  and  stead- 
fastness for  a  hundred  years,  their  descendants,  with  but 
few  exceptions,  maintained  their  connection  and  promi- 
nence in  Grace  Church. 

Among  these  families  were  the  names  of  Welling,  Hicks, 
Puntine,  Betts,  Troup,  Waters,  Eldert,  Eigenbrodt,  Nos- 
trand,  Morris,  Depeyster,  Codwise,  Christopher  Smith, 
Rufus  King,  Hendrickson,  Rowland,  Underbill,  Dunn, 
Oldfield,  Valentine,  Simonson,  Kissam,  Hewlett,  Skid- 
more,  Cortelyou,  Lawrence,  Mackrell.  Pews  were  occu- 
pied by  two  schools,  Mr.  Eigenbrodt  with  tutors  and 
students  in  front,  and  Miss  Woofendale  and  scholars  in  the 
center  of  the  Church. 


REV.  CALVIN  WHITE  AND  OTHERS. 

The  eight  years  which  followed  upon  the  resignation  of 
Mr.  Ratoon  were  a  period  of  dissatisfaction  with  the  six 
different  clergymen  who  were  chosen  as  ministers  or 
rectors. 

Rev.  Calvin  White  was  the  first  of  these  to  whom  the 
offer  of  the  rectorship  was  made,  with  a  salary  of  $500 
and  the  use  of  the  glebe.  Much  care  had  been  taken  in 
the  selection  of  this  clergyman.  He  was  ordained  Deacon 
June  28,  1798,  and  was  asked  to  take  charge  of  Grace 
Church  in  November,  1802.  He  had  been  a  minister  of 
the  Presbyterian  Church  at  Hanover,  N.  J.,  and  was  mar- 


OF   GRACE   CHURCH  115 

ried  to  Miss  Phebe  Camp  of  Newark,  during  that  ministry, 
on  Oct.  28,  1792. 

The  terms  of  Mr.  White's  settlement  occasioned  consid- 
erable correspondence  and  discussion,  and  were  finally 
made  to  conform  to  those  of  Mr.  Ratoon's  ministry,  and  he 
was  formally  inducted  as  rector  July  21,  1803,  by  Rev. 
Mr.  Hobart  of  Flushing  and  Newtown,  and  Rev.  Seth  Hart, 
of  Hempstead,  and  Rev.  Mr.  William  Harris,  of  St.  Mark's, 
New  York. 

Mr.  White,  with  all  this  careful  inauguration  of  his  min- 
istry, was  not  in  harmony  with  the  parish.  He  was  an 
accomplished  scholar  and  skilled  in  Hebrew  studies,  but 
was  not  sufficiently  in  sympathy  with  the  doctrines  of  the 
Episcopal  Church.  He  left  Grace  Church  abruptly  to  take 
another  Church,  Aug.  17,  1804.  He  continued  in  the 
Episcopal  ministry  until  1822,  when  he  was  deposed  at 
Derby,  Connecticut,  where  he  resided  quietly  as  a  layman 
near  the  Church  to  which  he  had  ministered.  He  died  at 
Derby  at  the  age  of  ninety,  leaving  a  son,  the  distinguished 
literary  scholar  and  critic,  Richard  Grant  White. 

The  clergymen  who  had  short  terms  of  ministry  in  Grace 
Church  for  the  next  six  years  were:  Revs.  George  Stre- 
beck,  Andrew  Fowler,  John  Ireland,  Edmund  D.  Barry, 
Timothy  Clowes. 

They  were  chosen  for  six  months  or  a  year,  but  some  of 
them  did  not  continue  in  their  ministry  for  even  the  short 
periods  for  which  they  were  invited. 


Ii6  ORIGIN   AND    HISTORY 


CHAPTER  XII. 
The  Rectorship  of  Rev.  Gilbert  Hunt  Say  res— 1810-1830. 

A  period  of  twenty  years  was  covered  by  the  prosperous 
rectorship  of  the  Rev.  Gilbert  Hunt  Sayres,  S.  T.  D.,  who 
received  a  unanimous  election  to  the  rectorship  of  Grace 
Church,  May  1,  1810.  Mr.  Sayres  was  not  then  in  priest's 
orders.  He  was  a  native  of  New  Jersey,  a  graduate  of 
Columbia  College,  1808,  and  studied  for  the  ministry  with 
Rev.  Dr.  Lyell  of  New  York.  Having  been  made  deacon 
by  Bishop  Moore,  Oct.  6,  1809,  he  did  not  receive  his 
priest's  orders  from  Bishop  John  Henry  Hobart  until  Feb. 
27,  1812.  In  1863  he  was  honored  by  the  degree  of 
Doctor  of  Sacred  Theology,  from  Columbia  College.  His 
ministry  continued  for  the  same  period  as  the  episcopate 
of  Bishop  Hobart,  who  was  consecrated  in  1811,  and  who 
died  Sept.,  1830,  the  year  of  Dr.  Sayres'  resignation. 
The  prosperity  of  that  episcopate  seemed  to  be  shared  by 
Grace  Church  and  parish,  which  were  blessed  with  the 
ministrations  of  a  studious,  devout,  sympathetic  and  char- 
itable man,  with  social  tastes  and  companionships,  which 
made  him  an  acceptable  pastor  and  friend. 

Dr.  Sayres  did  not  cease  his  life  of  doing  good  after  he 
retired  from  the  rectorship.  He  lived  in  Jamaica,  a  be- 
nevolent, scholarly  man,  for  thirty-seven  years.  He  re- 
ceived his  honorary  degree  at  the  age  of  seventy-six  and 
died  at  eighty  years,  on  April  27,  1867. 

Mr.  Sayres  was  brought  up  under  the  influence  of  a 
godly  mother,  who  was  a  member  of  the  Friends  Society, 


Rev.  Gilbert  Hunt  Sayf<es,  S.  T.  D.,  Rector  1810-1830. 


OF   GRACE   CHURCH  117 

but  he  early  sought  the  preachers  of  other  churches  in  New 
York,  and  was  so  impressed  by  their  eloquence  and  doc- 
trines, that  he  changed  his  views  and  forsook  the  religious 
convictions  of  his  mother  to  take  up  the  more  evangelical 
doctrines  of  the  Presbyterian  divine,  Dr.  Milledoler,  the 
pastor  of  the  Rutgers  Street  Church.  From  these  he 
passed  on  to  more  liberal  teachings  of  the  Episcopal 
Church.  But  his  mother  was  a  strict  and  conscientious 
Friend,  and  was  so  deeply  grieved  at  her  son's  straying 
from  her  guidance  in  his  religious  views  that  ''she  could 
never  attend  his  public  ministrations,  though  otherwise 
she  had  all  a  mother's  affection  for  him." 

"Though  a  staunch,  true  and  evangelical  churchman, 
Dr.  Sayres,  in  his  ministry  and  private  demeanor,  em- 
braced the  whole  Christian  family  in  the  arms  of  charity, 
but  was  outspoken  against  intemperance,  war,  slavery  and 
Romanism.  He  was  emphatically  the  Christian  gentle- 
man."—  (H.  Onderdonk.) 

Grace  Church  engaged  Mr.  Sayres  to  officiate  for  them 
when  he  was  sought  for  by  other  churches.  They  agreed 
to  pay  him  seven  hundred  and  fifty  dollars  annually,  in 
two  equal  payments,  with  provision  for  six  months'  notice, 
should  a  separation  be  desired  by  the  Church  or  the  rector. 

The  total  income  of  the  Church  during  the  first  year, 
1811,  including  interest  on  invested  funds,  was  $904.84, 
of  which  only  one-third  was  paid  in  subscriptions  and 
collections. 

There  was  an  average  of  about  sixty  pew  holders  during 
Dr.  Sayres'  ministry  from  the  whole  township  of  Jamaica, 
for  there  were  no  other  Episcopal  churches  then  to  divide 
the  attendance  of  Churchmen  with  Grace  Church. 


118  ORIGIN    AND    HISTORY 

The  Church  building  was  much  out  of  repair,  and  early 
in  his  ministry  there  was  much  discussion  in  the  Vestry,  of 
measures  to  enlarge  it  and  put  it  in  order.  It  had  served 
the  congregation  a  good  part  of  a  century.  The  more 
courageous  of  the  pewholders  desired  a  new  Church  build- 
ing to  be  erected.  Those  who  had  survived  the  struggles 
of  Grace  Church  before  and  after  the  period  of  the  Revo- 
lution, when  they  had  been  dependent  on  the  co-operation 
of  other  Churches  in  Long  Island  and  in  New  York,  ad- 
vised another  appeal  for  help.  Subscription  lists  at  home 
were  at  first  discouraging,  and  nothing  was  done  in  Church 
building  beyond  necessary  repairs. 

In  the  Spring  of  1820  the  Vestry  voted  to  repair  and 
enlarge  the  Church,  adding  fourteen  feet  to  the  west  end, 
and  building  a  new  steeple.  A  memorial  was  drawn  up 
and  read  to  the  congregation  by  the  rector.  A  gift  of 
$1,000  was  received  from  Trinity  Church  Corporation 
and  a  subscription  of  nearly  $3,000  more  was  made  for 
building  a  new  Church. 

The  Vestry  then  voted  to  use  funds  invested  in  the  hands 
of  Trinity  Church  and  elsewhere,  and  make  a  loan  of  $750 
for  this  purpose. 

Of  the  subscriptions  there  were  two  for  $500  each,  two 
for  $300,  one  for  $150,  and  three  for  $100.  The  rest 
were  in  smaller  sums  from  $50  to  $10,  so  that  To  the 
Diocesan  Convention  in  1821,  Bishop  Hobart  could  report: 

'The  congregation  of  Jamaica,  with  a  commendable 
zeal  for  the  Gospel  and  Church  of  Christ,  are  now  engaged 
in  erecting  a  new  commodious,  and  very  neat  edifice  on 
the  site  of  the  old  one  demolished  for  this  purpose.  It  is 
expected,  if  the  Lord  will,  to  be  ready  for  consecration 
early  in  the  ensuing  Spring."— (H.  Onderdonk.) 


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119 


There  was  no  architect  employed  in  building  this 
Church,  but  three  of  the  most  prominent  of  the  congrega- 
tion, Messrs.  Rufus  King,  Timothy  Nostrand  and  L.  E.  A. 
Eigenbrodt,  assisted  the  carpenters  in  making  the  plan  and 
directing  the  construction. 


O^^Ape   CHURCH.    JAMAICA/ 

Cass<criitc4  lulj  li,  lin. 

The  new  Church  covered  some  graves,  the  tombstones 
of  which  were  set  up  under  the  Church.  The  building, 
"remarkably  neat  and  handsome,"  as  Bishop  Hobart  de- 
scribed it,  was  consecrated  by  him  on  July  15,  1822.  It 
was  particularly  recommended  as  having  "a  chancel,  desk, 
and  pulpit  so  conveniently  arranged  as  to  accommodate  all 
the  worshippers  with  a  full  view  of  the  chancel." 


120  ORIGIN    AND    HISTORY 

Mr.  Sayres  was  instituted  rector  Oct.  30,  I8l9.  He  had 
shown  himself  to  be  a  man  of  large  views  as  to  the 
religious  needs  of  the  world.  He  was  one  of  the  founders 
of  the  American  Bible  Society.  This  was  a  notable  evi- 
dence of  his  liberal  spirit.  He  also  was  a  strong  upholder 
of  the  Church's  influence,  from  which  he  had  received  his 
ordination  to  the  ministry  of  the  Gospel  of  Christ.  Early 
in  that  ministry,  on  June  29,  I8l5,  there  was  a  meeting 
in  Grace  Church,  of  the  clergymen  and  laity  of  the  Protes- 
tant Episcopal  Church,  called  to  form  a  Society  to  dis- 
tribute the  Bible  and  Common  Prayer  Book.  The  remark- 
able record  of  this  Society,  which  has  entered  so  largely 
into  the  missionary  work  of  the  Church  in  the  whole  world, 
was  widely  made  known  at  the  centenary  celebration  in 
Trinity  Church  on  April  14,  1909,  in  which  bishops  and 
priests  of  the  Church  in  the  United  States  and  in  the  Greek 
and  Armenian  missionary  fields,  and  high  dignitaries  of 
Oriental  churches,  participated.  For  her  part  in  its  or- 
ganization, Grace  Church  was  represented  near  the  head  of 
the  procession,  by  the  rector  acting  as  one  of  the  Chaplains 
to  Bishop  Courtney,  the  representative  of  the  Bishop  of 
London. 

Under  Mr.  Sayres,  there  was  a  larger  number  of  bap- 
tisms than  had  previously  been  recorded,  and  the  services 
of  a  Bishop  to  administer  the  rite  of  confirmation  were 
quite  frequently  employed.  It  was  a  time  of  growth  in 
neighboring  churches  in  Long  Island.  On  the  day  pre- 
vious to  the  consecration  of  the  new  Church  at  Jamaica, 
Bishop  Hobart  confirmed  sixty  persons  in  St.  George's 
Church,  in  Flushing. 

Two  especially  notable  churchmen,  during  the  ministry 
of  Dr.  Sayres,  were  active  in  the  affairs  of  the  Church  and 
parish,  the  Hon.  Rufus  King  and  Lewis  E.  A.  Eigenbrodt, 


li()N.    RUFL'S    KlN(;. 

(From  Portrait  by  Gilbert  Stuart  in  \\'oodrow   Wilson's  "History 
of  the  Ameriean  People."    By  permission  of  Harper  &  Brothers. ) 


The  King  Manor  House,  Jamaica,   1840. 
(By  permission  of  the  American  Architect  Magazine.) 


OF   GRACE   CHURCH  121 

LL.  D.  Both  of  these  gentlemen  died  during  Mr.  Sayres' 
pastorate.  Mr.  King  died  April  29,  1827,  and  Mr.  Eigen- 
brodt,  August  30,  1828. 

Hon.  Rufus  King  was  early  distinguished  as  a  delegate 
to  Congress  from  Massachusetts  in  1784.  He  had  a  short 
military  service  in  the  Revolutionary  War,  and  took  a 
leading  part  in  the  political  measures  and  discussions  which 
sustained  it.  He  was  a  prominent  member  of  the  Consti- 
tutional Convention  in  1787,  and  of  the  Massachusetts 
Convention,  1787-1788,  which  ratified  the  Federal  Con- 
stitution of  which  he  was  one  of  the  signers  from  Massa- 
chusetts. Under  the  administrations  of  Presidents  John 
Adams  and  John  Quincy  Adams,  he  was  Minister  to  the 
Court  of  St.  James,  and  represented  New  York  as  Senator 
in  Congress  for  two  complete  terms. 

The  New  York  Evening  Post  at  the  time  of  Mr.  King's 
decease  lamented  the  departure  "of  another  of  our  oldest 
statesmen,  the  favorite  of  Washington;  one  whom  his  soul 
loved;  one  in  whom  he  wholly  confided;  one  who  rendered 
the  most  invaluable  service  in  organizing  and  sustaining 
the  early  and  difficult  measures  of  the  government:  one 
who  has  been  rarely  equalled  for  talents  equally  profound 
and  brilliant:  and  who,  in  his  meridian,  was  numbered 
among  the  brightest  stars  in  the  galaxy  of  his  country's 
glory."— (H.  Onderdonk.) 

Mr.  King  died  at  seventy-one  years  of  age,  in  New  York, 
and  was  buried  from  his  mansion  in  Jamaica,  without 
pomp,  but  in  the  presence  of  many  distinguished  associates. 

The  nation  scarcely  fifty  years  old  might  well  take  note 
of  the  departure  from  earth  of  one  who  valiantly  supported 
its  Declaration  of  Independence,  shared  its  struggles  and 
battles  to  make  that  declaration  stand  to  all  the  world,  and 


122  ORIGIN    AND    HISTORY 

all  generations.  The  ample  grounds  of  the  King  Manor 
were  filled  with  an  impressive  concourse  of  people.  The 
customs  of  those  days  permitted  without  comment  the 
distribution  of  segars,  tobacco  and  wine  for  the  refresh- 
ment of  those  who  came  from  long  distances  over  unpaved 
roads.  The  solemn  scenes  of  such  a  burial  may  have  been 
relieved  of  their  sadness  and  yet  no  more  sincere  regrets 
were  ever  felt  or  expressed  by  a  community  for  a  distin- 
guished citizen. 

He  was  a  Warden  from  1805  to  1812,  a  number  of 
years  successively,  of  Grace  Church,  and  for  twelve  years 
also  Warden  of  Trinity  Church,  New  York.  To  him  was 
largely  due  the  interest  and  repeated  aid  of  that  church 
which  so  materially  affected  the  condition  of  Grace 
Church.  His  son,  the  Hon.  John  A.  King,  distinguished  as 
a  Governor  of  New  York,  was  also,  after  the  death  of  his 
father,  a  communicant  and  active  member  of  Grace 
Church  before  the  long  rectorship  of  Dr.  Sayres  was  ended. 

Mr.  Lewis  E.  A.  Eigenbrodt  was  also  Warden,  at  the 
same  time  with  Mr.  Rufus  King.  He  was  an  accomplished 
teacher  of  youth  in  Jamaica,  and  the  founder  of  a  noted 
family  long  connected  with  Grace  Church  and  supporters 
of  its  ministry,  and  activities. 

His  son,  Rev.  William  Ernest  Eigenbrodt,  D.  D.,  was 
professor  of  pastoral  theology  in  the  General  Seminary, 
New  York  City,  and  the  donor  of  the  elegant  Eigenbrodt 
Hall,  of  that  institution. 

The  elder  Mr.  Eigenbrodt  was  not  only  Warden  for 
eleven  years,  but  for  some  time  Clerk  and  Treasurer  of 
Grace  Church.  For  thirty-nine  years  he  was  principal  of 
Union  Hall  Academy,  and  by  his  elegance  in  writing  and 


OF   GRACE   CHURCH  123 

speech,  impressed  his  scholars  with  his  learning,  wisdom 
and  also  by  his  exemplary  character. 

The  resignation  of  the  rectorship  by  Dr.  Sayres  was 
occasioned  by  increasing  physical  infirmities  which  pre- 
vented him  from  conducting  the  services  acceptably.  The 
necessity  of  this  approaching  separation  from  his  work 
was  made  apparent  some  years  before,  and  a  mutual 
agreement  was  entered  into  by  rector  and  parish  for  a  term 
of  years  when  the  relation  would  terminate. 

When  it  transpired,  the  Vestry  made  an  appropriation 
of  $100  annually  for  five  years  towards  his  support. 

It  was  the  thoughtful  care  and  generous  aid  of  the  rector 
who  followed  Dr.  Sayres,  which  mitigated  the  great  trials 
which  the  cessation  of  his  ministerial  offices  brought  upon 
this  venerable  successor  and  servant  of  Jesus  Christ.  After 
the  death  of  his  successor  there  was  revealed  the  sacrifices 
which  had  been  made  by  him  in  behalf  of  this  brother  in 
the  ministry,  for  whose  sake  he  endured  undeserved  criti- 
cism in  the  use  of  his  salary. 

The  Rev.  Doctor  Sayres  long  survived  his  rectorship. 
He  died  at  the  advanced  age  of  eighty  years,  during  the 
rectorship  of  Rev.  William  Lupton  Johnson,  D.  D.,  suit- 
ably honored  for  his  services  as  a  minister  of  the  Gospel, 
as  an  exemplary  Christian  citizen,  and  as  a  long-settled 
rector  of  Grace  Church.  The  commendations  publicly 
given  by  the  distinguished  clergy  of  New  York  who  were 
present  at  the  funeral  services,  and  by  the  Wardens  and 
Vestrymen  of  Grace  Church,  were  remarkable  testimonials 
to  his  character  and  the  value  of  his  services  to  the  Church. 
The  funeral  was  held  at  Grace  Church  on  May  1,  1867. 
The  day  was  stormy,  but  there  was  a  large  concourse  of 
clergy  and  citizens.    The  Rev.  Dr.  Johnson,  rector,  was 


124  ORIGIN    AND    HISTORY 

assisted  by  Rev.  Mr.  Pearson  of  Rockaway,  and  Rev.  J. 
Carpenter  Smith  of  Flushing.  Episcopal  clergymen  and 
two  Church  Wardens,  Ex-Governor  King  and  Judge  Cogs- 
well, were  pall-bearers.  Six  Vestrymen,  Messrs.  Brenton, 
Napier,  Denton,  Johnson,  Vandeverg  and  Valentine  car- 
ried the  plain  mahogany  coffin  in  which  their  aged  rector 
lay  clothed  in  his  clerical  vestments.  The  stores  and  busi- 
ness places  in  Jamaica  were  closed  and  the  Church  draped 
in  mourning. 

The  resolutions  of  the  clergy  in  their  meeting,  of  which 
Rev.  Wm.  M.  Carmichael  was  Secretary,  gave  thanks  to 
God,  that  their  venerable  and  beloved  brother,  Rev.  Gil- 
bert H.  Sayres,  D.  D.,  was  enabled  through  grace  to  adorn 
the  doctrine  of  God  our  Savior,  as  a  wise,  prudent,  learned, 
holy,  faithful  minister  for  more  than  half  a  century;  that 
while  naturally  of  a  meek  and  unobtrusive  temperament, 
he  was  ever  the  bold,  firm,  decided,  uncompromising  advo- 
cate of  righteousness  and  truth;  that  although  he  was  laid 
aside  from  the  active  duties  of  the  ministry  for  nearly  forty 
years,  yet  he  was  always  ready  to  counsel  the  weak  and 
erring,  as  well  as  to  sympathize  with  the  poor  and  needy 
to  the  best  of  his  ability;  that  he  has  left  behind  him  a 
record,  not  only  of  untiring  faithfulness  and  devotion  to 
his  work,  but  a  multitude  of  witnesses  to  attest  the  power 
and  value  of  his  ministrations  in  winning  souls  to  Christ; 
in  short  that  he  has  passed  away,  as  we  can  testify,  amidst 
the  tears  and  regrets  of  the  entire  community  in  which  his 
life  was  spent,  and  has  finally  fallen  asleep  in  Jesus,  full 
of  years  and  honor,  to  receive  a  crown  of  glory  eternal  in 
the  Heavens." 

The  Vestry  resolutions  gave  expression  to  their  un- 
feigned sorrow  and  regret  for  the  ''loss  of  one  of  the  oldest 
and  ablest  ministers  of  the  Church,  to  bear  their  grateful 


OF   GRACE    CHURCH  125 

testimony  to  the  pure  and  gentle  character  of  a  clergyman, 
venerable  for  his  age,  eminent  for  his  learning,  his  piety, 
and  for  the  soundness  of  his  church  principles."  The  sim- 
plicity of  his  life  and  manners  was  ever  in  unison  with  the 
Gospel  he  preached,  and  during  a  long  life  of  varied  health 
won  for  him  the  affection  and  confidence  of  this  congre- 
gation and  of  every  true  Christian. 

Doctor  Sayres  was  buried  in  Grace  Churchyard.  He 
was  born  Dec.  13,  1787,  in  Westfield,  N.  J.  He  married 
Eliza  Maria  Brown,  May  30,  1810.  He  died  April  27, 
1867,  having  lived  to  see  most  of  their  large  family  come 
to  maturity.  Their  children  were  Jane  Hewlett,  Rev. 
George,  Gilbert,  John  Tillotson,  Isaac,  Rev.  Samuel  Wood- 
ward, formerly  Rector  St.  John's  Church,  Far  Rockaway, 
L.  I.,  Lydia  Stewart,  wife  of  Dr.  Charles  H.  Barker,  Wil- 
liam Johnson,  and  Eliza  Maria. 

Of  these,  Rev.  George  Sayres,  Eliza  Maria,  Jane,  and 
Gilbert  Sayres,  Esq.,  of  the  New  York  Bar,  lived  and  died 
citizens  of  Jamaica.  Two  of  Gilbert's  family  also  con- 
tinued to  represent  their  grandfather  in  Jamaica  for  many 
years  with  his  widow,  Anna  Leah  Sayres.  These  were 
Elizabeth,  the  wife  of  James  R.  Lake,  and  Gilbert  Barker 
Sayres,  Vice-President  of  the  Metropolitan  Bank,  New 
York. 

The  older  son.  Rev.  William  Seaman  Sayres,  was  a 
graduate  of  Dartmouth  College,  1876.  He  also  received 
the  degree  of  Doctor  of  Divinity  from  this  college.  He 
went  to  China  as  a  Missionary  of  the  Board  of  Missions, 
having  been  ordained  Deacon  by  Bishop  Niles  of  New 
Hampshire.  He  took  the  Chair  of  Mathematics  in  St. 
John's  College,  Shanghai,  and  remained  in  China  until 


126  ORIGIN    AND    HISTORY 

May,  1885.    Returning  in  1885  to  America,  Doctor  Sayres 
became  General  Missioner  of  the  Diocese  of  Michigan. 

The  rest  of  this  family  were  Mary  Regina,  Annie  Eliza, 
and  Lydia. 

James  Jahleel  Brenton,  prominent  in  the  vestry  of 
Grace  Church,  was  descended  from  William  Brenton,  a 
representative  of  Boston  from  1635,  Lieutenant-Governor 
of  Rhode  Island  before  1660,  and  Governor  from  1666 
to  1669,  who  died,  1674,  at  Newport.  He  came  to  Jamaica 
in  1835,  where  he  established  the  Long  Island  Democrat. 
In  1854  he  was  chosen  Vestryman,  and  in  1868  he  suc- 
ceeded John  A.  King  as  Warden.  He  was  also  Treasurer 
of  the  Church  for  some  years. 


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CHAPTER  XIII. 

The  Long  Rectorship  of  William  Lupton  Johnson,  D.  D., 

—1830-1870. 

The  most  important  period  of  the  history  of  Grace 
Church  during  the  second  century  of  its  life,  is  marked  by 
the  ministry  of  the  Rev.  William  Lupton  Johnson,  D.  D. 
It  was  twice  as  long  as  that  of  Rev.  Dr.  Sayres,  which 
preceded  it,  and  was  the  most  extended  and  fruitful  in  its 
results  of  all  of  the  rectorships  of  two  hundred  years.  I! 
began  in  February,  1830,  and  ended  in  his  death,  Aug.  8, 
1870.  These  forty  years  were  also  the  most  momentous 
part  of  the  Nineteenth  Century  to  this  nation.  It  was  a 
time  of  political  agitation  and  intense  moral  struggle  in 
the  minds  and  hearts  of  this  people.  Then  followed  the 
war  for  state  rights  and  to  establish  slavery  and  oppression 
on  one  side,  and  to  maintain  the  constitution  and  the 
Union  on  the  other  side.  During  this  rectorship  were  the 
greatest  religious  movements  of  modern  times  and  the 
development  of  education  in  our  country  in  the  great  West 
and  South,  and  to  raise  millions  of  slaves  to  an  intelligence 
worthy  of  the  freedom  and  civil  rights  conferred  upon 
them.  The  most  unselfish  patriotism  found  expression, 
the  largest  missionary  efforts  were  put  forth,  and  the  most 
extensive  philanthropy  attended  upon  the  unequalled 
scientific,  commercial  and  industrial  progress  attained  after 
the  Civil  War.  There  were  in  the  first  ten  years  of  Dr. 
Johnson's  ministry  only  eighty-eight  different  pewholders 
in  Grace  Church,  from  the  whole  parish  and  township  of 
Jamaica,  where  now  there  are  ten  Episcopal  churches  and 


128  ORIGIN    AND    HISTORY 

missions  holding  regular  services.  The  annual  income  at 
the  end  of  twenty  years  of  this  pastorate  (in  1850),  in- 
cluding the  interest  on  invested  funds,  was  but  $1606.32. 

Around  Grace  Church  were  gathering  a  number  of  in- 
telligent and  vigorous  families,  of  social  respectability  and 
financial  ability,  with  an  influence  in  aflfairs  of  the  great 
city  with  which  it  was  in  more  frequent  association  in 
business  and  in  professional  and  political  circles. 

Jamaica  was  developing  trade  with  the  central  and 
western  towns  of  Long  Island,  and  was  encouraging  the 
work  of  good  teachers  and  private  schools.  Out  of  the 
Toryism  of  the  Revolutionary  War  which  especially  pre- 
vailed on  Long  Island,  there  had  grown  a  conservative 
character  in  her  citizens,  and  the  Episcopalian  part  of  the 
population  had  recovered  large  influence  in  the  community. 

The  Vestry  were  divinely  guided  in  their  selection  of  a 
successor  to  Dr.  Sayres.  Mr.  Johnson  was  endowed  with 
qualities  that  fitted  him  to  be  a  leader  in  religious  affairs. 
He  was  well  educated  and  scholarly  in  his  tastes.  His 
ancestors  lived  in  Brooklyn,  and  were  of  the  Holland  race, 
and  his  father.  Rev.  John  Barent  Johnson,  was  an  elo- 
quent clergyman  of  the  Dutch  Reformed  denomination  in 
Albany  in  1796,  and  pastor  of  the  first  Dutch  Reformed 
Church  in  Brooklyn.  Having  been  left  an  orphan,  Wil- 
liam Lupton  Johnson  was  taken  in  charge  by  an  uncle, 
Mr.  Peter  Roosevelt,  with  his  brother  and  sister,  and 
moved  to  New  York,  to  a  house  at  the  corner  of  Green- 
wich and  Desbrosses  Street,  when  Canal  Street  was  a  wide 
deep  swamp,  with  only  one  house  near  it.  He  was  placed 
under  the  tuition  of  Mr.  Joseph  Nelson,  a  noted  blind 
teacher  of  Latin  and  Greek;  and,  in  I8l5,  entered  Colum- 
bia College.    He  showed  a  decided  literary  taste  with  his 


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high  scholarship  in  the  languages,  and  began  to  contribute 
to  the  public  journals.  His  classmate  in  Columbia  College, 
George  Washington  Doane,  became  Bishop  of  New  Jer- 
sey, the  father  of  Bishop  William  Doane  of  Albany.  Fin- 
ishing at  the  University  in  1819,  he  began  to  study  law  at 
the  same  time  with  Mr.  Doane  in  the  law  office  of  Mr. 
Harrison,  who  was  later  Comptroller  of  Trinity  Church. 
They  both  engaged  in  the  Sunday  School  at  St.  John's,  and 
in  the  evenings  read  Homer  and  Virgil  together  in  the 
belfry  of  St.  John's  Chapel,  till  their  late  hours  led  to  an 
investigation  that  disclosed  their  scholarly  tastes  and  pur- 
suits. They  soon  wearied  of  the  law  and  began  to  study 
for  the  ministry.  Johnson  entered  the  General  Theological 
Seminary,  and  standing  by  it  in  its  migrations  and  first 
unsuccessful  years,  was  the  first  graduate  of  that  institu- 
tion. He  was  ordained  Deacon  by  Bishop  Hobart  and 
became  an  assistant  to  Bishop  Richard  Channing  Moore,  in 
the  Monumental  Church  at  Richmond,  Va.  While  there, 
Mr.  Johnson  was  elected  rector  of  St.  Michael's  Parish  in 
Trenton,  N.  J.,  where  his  ministry  was  much  esteemed  and 
won  both  popularity  and  the  aflfection  of  his  people. 

At  this  time  Timothy  Nostrand  and  John  Skidmore  were 
Wardens  of  Grace  Church,  and  Messrs.  John  Hoogland, 
Silas  Roe,  Johnathan  Rowland,  Samuel  Welling,  Lawrence 
Denton,  Daniel  Cornwell  and  John  Van  Nostrand  were 
Vestrymen.  They  elected  Mr.  Johnson  to  the  rectorship, 
which  proved  so  happy  to  the  people  of  Jamaica  and  to 
himself.  "Here,"  said  the  Rev.  Samuel  J.  Corneille,  who 
had  been  for  some  years  his  assistant  in  Grace  Church, 
"his  life  was  an  open  book,  without  a  page  which  all  might 
not  read.  He  was  no  Pharisee.  He  was  just  what  he 
seemed  to  be,  too  gentle  perhaps  in  some  relations,  but 
always  loving,  always  lovable,  always  true.    He  almost 


130  ORIGIN    AND    HISTORY 

reached  his  threescore  years  and  ten;  having  served  in  the 
ministry  nearly  half  a  century,  and  only  once  did  he  seek 
in  a  foreign  land  that  rest  from  mental  toil  which  every 
pastor  needs  so  much  from  time  to  time.  He  was  a  rapid 
composer  and  writer.  His  sermons  were  models  of  Eng- 
lish composition.  As  a  churchman  he  was  conservative, 
one  of  the  old  school  of  Theologians,  who  while  they 
admitted  the  value  of  science  and  eloquence,  and  a  pure 
development  in  ritual,  still  clung  with  inflexible  tenacity  to 
the  ancient  definitions  of  faith.  He  believed  in  one  Catho- 
lic and  Apostolic  Church.  His  doctrine  was  sound;  his 
orders  he  held  to  be  as  legitimate  and  sacred  as  any  priest's 
on  earth.  He  was  to  the  end  scholastic  in  his  habits  of 
though!,  and  even  when  his  mind  under  feverish  tenden- 
cies wandered  a  little  towards  the  last,  he  quoted  freely 
from  English,  Greek  and  Latin  poets." 

With  the  undeveloped  traits  of  such  a  character,  Mr. 
Johnson  entered  upon  his  eventful  service  to  Grace 
Church.  When  the  forty  years  were  ended  the  eulogies 
of  his  brethren  in  the  ministry  and  of  his  people  were  em- 
phatic testimony  to  the  use  of  his  native  talents  and  ac- 
quirements for  the  honor  of  his  Lord. 

One  of  Mr.  Johnson's  Wardens,  Mr.  John  Skidmore, 
said  to  him  when  he  came  to  Jamaica,  "Praise  up  your 
own  Church  as  much  as  you  please,  but  don't  run  down 
other  denominations." 

This  was  good  counsel,  which  Mr.  Johnson  was  well 
fitted  by  his  temperament  and  disposition  to  follow. 

The  same  year,  Sept.  24,  1830,  occurred  the  death  of 
the  beloved  and  honored  Bishop  of  the  Diocese,  Rt.  Rev. 
John  Henry  Hobart.  Grace  Church  was  immediately 
draped  in  mourning  and  so  continued  till  the  Christmas 


OF   GRACE    CHURCH  131 

festival.  The  Church  less  than  two  years  after,  Jan.  2, 
1832,  sustained  the  loss  of  the  Senior  Warden  and  Clerk 
and  Treasurer  for  many  years,  Mr.  Timothy  Nostrand,  and 
the  Vestry  offered  resolutions  of  sympathy  to  his  family. 
In  1833,  by  the  sale  of  railroad  stock,  the  Church  was 
painted  and  otherwise  repaired  at  a  cost  of  $500. 

In  1835,  Dec.  18,  the  Ladies'  Missionary  Society,  organ- 
ized at  the  beginning  of  Mr.  Johnson's  rectorship,  about 
1830,  through  Mrs.  Mary  E.  Johnson  gave  an  organ  to 
the  Church.  This  Society  had  also  since  its  organization 
held  two  fairs,  the  first  on  July  4,  1832,  and  the  second  on 
Dec.  23,  1835,  and  thus  raised  $1,200,  which  was  donated 
to  missions. 

In  November,  1835,  Mr.  Johnson  was  obliged  to  go  to 
the  south  of  France  and  Italy  for  his  health,  and  after 
eight  months  of  travel  in  Europe  returned  with  marked 
improvement. 

He  received  the  honorary  degree  of  Doctor  of  Divinity 
from  Alleghany  College. 

At  the  beginning  of  his  rectorship  Mr.  Johnson  was 
allowed  a  salary  of  $600.  There  was  expended  $100  a 
year  for  the  previous  rector's  support,  and  $100  was 
divided  between  the  organist,  sexton,  and  organ-blower, 
one-half  of  which  was  given  to  the  organist. 

Such  straitened  finances  would  well  discourage  an  able 
minister.  He  was  thought  to  be  generous  to  a  fault  by  his 
people,  but  they  did  not  know,  that  for  several  years  Mr. 
Johnson's  entire  salary  was  given  to  the  aged  retired 
rector,  Doctor  Sayres,  and  the  patrimony  which  Mr. 
Johnson  had  received  from  his  father's  estate  in  New  York 
was  the  insufl^cient  but  sole  support  of  his  own  family. 


132  ORIGIN    AND    HISTORY 

Having  been  reproached  for  his  manner  of  living  and 
the  appearance  of  his  family,  Mr.  Johnson  had  to  confess 
that  he  had  not  only  in  this  way  used  up  the  income  but 
the  principal  of  his  little  property.  Measures  were  taken 
after  this  was  known  which  resulted  in  a  better  state  of 
aftairs  for  both  families.* 

In  1839  so  great  was  the  comity  of  the  churches  in 
Jamaica  that  the  Vestry  of  Grace  Church  passed  resolu- 
tions of  sorrow  and  sympathy  on  the  death  of  the  Rev. 
Elias  W.  Crane,  minister  of  the  Presbyterian  Church  in 
Jamaica.  A  copy  of  this  resolution  was  sent  to  the  Ses- 
sions of  the  Congregation  and  the  widow. 

The  next  year  $l,25o,  raised  from  the  Church  funds, 
and  $300  by  subscription,  was  expended  in  again  repair- 
ing the  Church. 

The  Charter  of  the  Church  was  changed  the  ensuing 
year,  1842,  on  petition  to  the  Legislature,  so  that  residents 
of  Flushing  or  Newtown,  if  of  full  age,  pewholders  in 
Grace  Church  belonging  to  it  for  the  last  twelve  months 
or  received  therein  by  baptism,  confirmation,  or  receiving 
the  communion,  were  allowed  equal  rights  thereafter. 

Henry  I.  Hagner,  Judge  and  Surrogate  of  Qi-i^ens 
County,  was  a  pewholder  in  Grace  Church  from  1830  to 
1839,  and  in  1842  was  chosen  Vestryman  and  Secretary. 
He  continued  either  as  Vestryman  or  Warden  till  1849. 

There  was  during  the  next  ten  years  a  gradual  increase 
of  stipends  for  the  rector  and  officials  of  the  Church  and 
parish.  In  1850  that  of  the  rector  was  raised  to  $1,000, 
and  in  1859  $100  was  added  to  it,  and  that  of  the  sexton 
and  organist  amounted  to  $100,  while  five  per  cent,  of  the 

*Rev.  Joshua  Kimber, 


OF   GRACE   CHURCH  133 

collections  was  given  to  the  collector,  and  the  Treasurer 
received  $25. 

A  baptismal  font  of  Italian  marble  was  donated  to  the 
Church  by  John  A.  King,  Esq.,  in  1847,  and  the  inside  of 
the  Church  painted  by  the  elTorts  of  ladies  of  the  congre- 
gation, and  two  years  after  a  new  organ  was  obtained  for 
the  Church  by  exchange  and  the  sum  of  $1,300  additional. 

An  important  addition  was  made  August  14,  1851,  to  the 
churchyard  from  Mr.  John  A.  King's  land,  for  sheds  and  a 
cemetery.  The  sheds  were  immediately  built  at  a  cost  of 
$500. 

On  Easter  Tuesday,  1852,  a  resolution  of  sympathy  was 
passed  by  the  Vestry  on  the  death  of  the  Rev.  Jacob 
Schoonmaker,  D.  D.,  for  half  a  century  the  clergyman  of 
the  Reformed  Dutch  Church  in  Jamaica,  "whose  life  and 
services  have  been  a  practical  example  of  the  virtues, 
piety  and  charity  which  should  ever  adorn  the  character 
of  a  minister  of  the  Church  of  Christ." 

The  next  year.  May  30,  Mr.  Johnson's  health  was  so 
much  aifected  that  the  Vestry  voted  him  a  three  months' 
absence  and  $300  for  his  expenses.  The  Vestry  also  pro- 
vided for  his  official  duties  by  paying  to  the  Rev.  Mr.  Croes 
one  hundred  and  twenty  dollars.  The  land  east  of  the 
rector's  burial  plot  up  to  the  fence  was  given  to  him,  and 
as  a  testimony  of  the  integrity  and  services  of  Mr.  Daniel 
Cornwell,  the  deceased  collector,  the  old  tankard  of  Grace 
Church  was  given  to  his  widow. 

On  April  13,  1852,  Mr.  Jeremiah  Valentine  was  chosen 
Clerk  of  the  Vestry  and  entered  upon  a  long  period  of 
official  services  as  a  member  of  the  Vestry  and  principal 
of  the  Sunday  School. 


134  ORIGIN    AND    HISTORY 

The  latter  was  so  prosperous,  that  by  subscriptions  of 
the  congregation  and  appropriations  of  the  Vestry,  a  Sun- 
day School  building,  22x40  feet,  was  erected  on  land  50 
ft.  front  by  72  feet  deep,  adjoining  the  horse  sheds  and 
given  by  Mr.  John  A.  King,  at  a  cost  of  $650. 

There  was  increasing  interest  in  the  music  of  the  ser- 
vices. Organists  were  frequently  changed,  and  the  salary 
increased  to  $200,  which  was  given  to  Mr.  George  C. 
Kissam  in  1858,  the  successor  to  William  J.  Sayres. 

The  Vestry  again  expressed  their  sympathy  with  those 
who  were  of  other  Church  denominations.  The  Church 
of  the  Dutch  Reformed  Congregation  was  entirely  de- 
stroyed by  fire  in  Nov.,  1857,  and  the  Vestry  offered  seats 
free  to  all  who  would  attend  the  services  of  Grace  Church 
till  their  own  was  restored. 

Again  in  April,  i860,  the  Vestry  voted  to  clean,  paint 
the  walls  and  otherwise  repair  the  Church  building,  adding 
more  pews,  and  new  carpets,  and  removing  the  old  pulpit 
and  desk.  There  was  a  gift  of  $200  by  the  ladies  through 
Miss  Anne  Van  Wyck,  the  proceeds  of  a  fair,  for  stained 
glass  windows,  to  which  $100  more  was  added  by  the 
Vestry.  Inside  and  outside  the  Church  was  put  in  fine 
condition  at  a  cost  of  $1,000,  obtained  by  a  loan.  It  was 
reopened  Aug.  26,  with  a  grand  Te  Deum  by  the  choir 
and  a  sermon  by  the  rector.  The  Rev.  Mr.  Corneille,  who 
read  the  service,  was  made  assistant  minister,  at  the  re- 
quest of  Dr.  Johnson,  Nov.  1,  1862. 

Five  months  later,  after  joyful  services  on  Christmas 
day,  the  Church  took  fire  on  New  Year's  morning  and  was 
totally  destroyed. 

The  organ  and  all  the  furniture  was  burned.  Treasured 
relics  of  the  earliest  history  of  the  Church  in  Jamaica  van- 


OF  GRACE   CHURCH  135 

ished  in  the  flames.  There  were  two  tablets  presented  by 
Archbishop  Tenison,  as  the  gift  of  Queen  Anne,  containing 
the  Ten  Commandments,  the  Apostles'  Creed  and  the 
Lord's  Prayer,  the  graceful  communion  table  of  English 
oak,  the  vestments,  the  Bible,  and  Prayer  Book,  hallowed 
by  a  century  and  a  half  of  worship,  and  the  Church  bell, 
cast  in  1748,  and  weighing  400  pounds  which  was  broken 
and  melted,  but  the  Queen's  arms  were  rescued,  and  the 
silver  vessels  were  happily  not  in  the  Church  and  preserved. 

The  fire  broke  out  at  three  o'clock  in  the  morning;  it 
was  ascribed  to  a  defective  flue.  The  Church  was  built  of 
wood  and  valued  at  $10,000.  An  insurance  of  $6,000, 
recently  taken  out  on  Church  and  organ  was  all  that  was 
left  with  which  to  build  again.  Even  the  headstones  of 
graves  beneath  the  Church  were  crumbled  to  pieces  by 
the  heat.  The  loss,  keenly  felt  by  rector  and  people,  was 
a  call  to  energetic  action  by  the  parish.  Their  tears  over 
so  many  sacred  and  tender  recollections  were  wiped  away, 
and  committees  appointed  to  obtain  plans  for  a  new  edifice, 
subscriptions  for  the  building,  and  memorial  gifts  for  the 
appointments  of  a  new  sanctuary. 

The  last  service  held  in  the  old  Church  before  its  de- 
struction was  the  anniversary  of  Grace  Sunday  School. 

This  was  established  in  1840,  Mrs.  Hassell  and  Mrs.  W. 
L.  Johnson,  the  rector's  wife,  with  her  sister.  Miss  Hattie 
Whitlock,  Mrs.  William  R.  Gracie  and  the  Misses  Clement, 
assisting  as  teachers.  The  school  was  held  in  the  Church, 
and  the  library  was  kept  in  the  vestry  room  adjoining. 
This  room  was  afterwards  enlarged  and  was  used  for  the 
sessions  of  the  school,  which  were  much  affected  by  the 
death  of  Mrs.  Johnson,  in  1848.  A  few  zealous  teachers 
and  scholars  continued  the  school,  under  Mr.  Jeremiah 


136  ORIGIN    AND    HISTORY 

Valentine,  who  was  Superintendent  and  a  Vestryman. 
Miss  Anne  Van  Wyck  drilled  the  scholars  in  singing,  and 
Miss  Phebe  Hagner  in  the  Catechism  and  Prayer  Book,  on 
which  she  published  a  book  of  questions  and  answers.  Mr. 
Valentine  invited  Mr.  Alleman,  a  teacher  in  Union  Hall 
Seminary,  to  visit  the  school,  to  assist  in  charge.  It  so 
increased  in  numbers  that  a  new  building  was  proposed, 
and  erected  on  Flushing  Avenue,  well  furnished,  and 
accommodating  180  scholars  and  20  teachers.  But  Mr. 
Valentine  continued  to  be  the  faithful  and  successful  su- 
perintendent. Harmony  prevailed  in  the  school,  which 
the  children  loved,  and  maintained  with  great  regularity 
and  interest,  and  especially  in  their  anniversaries  and 
picnic  excursions  displayed  their  enthusiasm. —  (H.  Onder- 
donk,  Notes.) 

There  was  a  response  from  Grace  Church  to  the  calls 
for  aid  of  the  sick,  wounded  and  dying  soldiers  of  the 
Civil  War. 

On  July  30,  1861,  a  meeting  was  held  by  the  ladies  of 
Jamaica  in  the  vestry  room  of  Grace  Church,  to  take 
measures  to  act  with  the  Woman's  Central  Association  of 
Relief  for  the  Army. 

A  Soldiers'  Aid  Society  was  organized,  of  which  Miss 
Phebe  Hagner  was  Secretary,  which  held  meetings  in  the 
Sunday  School  room  and  did  efficient  work  during  the  war. 


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OF   GRACE    CHURCH  137 


CHAPTER  XIV. 
The  Rectorship  of  Doctor  Johnson,  Continued. 

From  the  ashes  of  the  old  Church  rose  in  eleven  months 
a  Church  edifice  worthy  of  the  faith  and  self-denials,  and 
prayers  and  labors  which  for  more  than  a  hundred  and 
fifty  years  had  here  maintained  the  ancient  liturgy,  the 
principles  and  the  faith  and  character  of  the  Anglican 
Church.  It  was  left  in  the  hands  of  the  following  build- 
ing Committee  to  secure  an  architect,  and  plans  for  a  new 
Church  building:  Rev.  William  L.  Johnson  (rector),  John 
A.  King,  William  J.  Cogswell,  George  H.  Kissam,  John  L. 
Denton,  Hendrick  Brinckerhoff. 

Dudley  Field  of  New  York  was  chosen  by  them  to  draw 
the  plans  and  superintend  the  work.  His  plans  were 
promptly  accepted  by  the  Committee.  The  Church  was 
to  be  built  of  New  Jersey  sandstone.  Its  dimensions  were 
to  be  44  feet  wide,  by  90  feet  long,  with  tower  on  one 
corner  128  feet  high;  from  ground  to  peak  40  feet,  and 
side  walls  about  20  feet  high.  The  plan  embraced  the 
conveniences  and  ornaments  of  modern  architecture. 
Anders  Petersen  was  the  contractor  for  the  erection  of  the 
building. 

It  was  acknowledged  by  every  one  to  be  an  ornament 
to  the  village,  and  the  citizens  watched  with  pride  the 
surmounting  of  the  graceful  steeple  with  a  stone  cross  at 
a  height  of  ll5  feet.  The  walls  were  52  feet  high  at  the 
apex  of  the  gable,  and  the  side  walls  22  feet;  the  tower 
was  12  feet  square,  exclusive  of  the  buttresses  and  front 
porch. 


138  ORIGIN    AND    HISTORY 

The  original  building  was  thus  described  at  the  time  of 
consecration.  "The  style  of  the  building  is  early  pointed; 
with  the  nave  divided  into  five  bays  by  well-developed 
buttresses  in  two  stages,  lighted  by  lancet  windows  in  the 
sides,  and  by  a  handsome  equilateral  window  filled  with 
geometrical  tracery,  in  the  front  gable.  The  trusses  of 
the  roof  are  molded  and  exposed  to  view,  within  a  small 
distance  from  the  ridge,  aiTording  an  air  space  between 
the  outer  covering  and  ceiling  for  equalizing  the  temper- 
ature of  the  building.  The  chancel  is  lighted  by  a  triplet, 
and  divided  into  sacrarium  and  choir,  with  altar,  bishop's 
and  rector's  chairs,  and  with  prayer  book  and  lectern  in 
choir,  and  pulpit  in  the  jamb  of  chancel  archway.  The 
organ  chamber  is  connected  with  nave  and  chancel  by 
large  archways  with  dwarf  screens.  The  exterior  is  faced 
with  Belleville  stone,  with  stone  tower  and  broach  spire 
and  slated  roof." 

This  graceful  and  beautiful  church  was  completed  and 
furnished  and  consecrated  within  two  years  after  the  old 
church  was  consumed.  The  corner-stone  was  laid  July 
6,  1861,  by  Bishop  Potter.  Among  the  articles  deposited 
in  the  corner-stone  were  two  plates  from  decayed  coffins, 
one  inscribed  "  Thomas  Colgan,"  and  the  other  "  Rev. 
Dr.  J.  B.,"  was  supposed  to  be  that  of  Rev.  Dr.  Joshua 
Bloomer. 

The  church  was  opened  September  23,  I862.  At  the 
first  of  the  two  services  Rev.  Wm.  L.  Johnson,  D.  D., 
preached  the  sermon,  closing  with  appropriate  words  to 
the  congregation,  to  whom  he  had  ministered  for  thirty 
years,  and  to  the  older  portion  particularly,  who  had  been 
his  friends  in  trials  and  afflictions.  In  the  afternoon  Rev. 
S.  J.  Corneille  preached  from  Haggai  ii,  9:  'The  glory  of 
the  latter  house  shall  be  greater  than  of  the  former." 


OF   GRACE    CHURCH  139 

The  application  of  the  prophecy  was  its  fulfillment  by 
the  erection,  under  discouraging  circumstances,  of  this 
edifice,  which  exceeded  the  glory  of  the  former.  Mr. 
Corneille  referred  to  the  state  of  the  country  in  strong 
terms,  and  to  the  necessity  of  sustaining  the  Government 
in  the  present  crisis;  and  he  reminded  his  hearers  that 
though  this  Government  might  fail  in  its  mission,  their 
trust  must  be  in  that  Government  whose  Constitution  is 
perfect  and  fails  not;  and  then  he  exhorted  them  to  be  more 
punctual  in  their  attendance  at  Church  and  more  united 
in  their  bonds  of  Christian  fellowship;  then  the  glory  of 
the  latter  house  would  indeed  be  greater  than  the  former. 

This  handsome  church  edifice  was  erected  at  a  cost  of 
^19,000.  The  masonry  work  was  contracted  for  by 
Anders  Petersen,  and  the  carpenter  work  by  Hendrick 
Brinckerhoff .  The  last  expense  was  for  a  bell  weighing  « 
little  more  than  1200  pounds,  cast  at  Meneely's  West  Troy 
works.  Into  this  bell  is  cast  a  legend,  giving  the  date  of 
incorporation  of  Grace  Church,  and  of  the  erection  of  this 
edifice,  and  the  names  of  the  building  committee. 

rhe  subscriptions  for  this  building  amounted  to  ^4,453. 
Governor  John  A.  King  gave  $1,000  and  also  the  new 
organ  made  by  Jardine  &  Co.  It  contained  14  stops  and 
403  pipes,  and  an  independent  sub-base.  This  organ  con- 
tinued to  be  used  by  Grace  Church  for  forty  years.  It 
was  rich  in  tone  and  of  high  compass. 

When  the  corner-stone  was  laid  by  Rt.  Rev.  Horatio 
Potter,  July  6,  1861,  he  alluded  to  the  presence  of  the  aged 
former  rector.  Rev.  Dr.  Sayres,  who  making  a  short  but 
affectionate  address,  gave  his  blessing  to  the  work.  This 
greatly  moved  the  people. 


140  ORIGIN    AND    HISTORY 

At  the  consecration  of  Grace  Church  by  Bishop  Horatio 
Potter,  about  twenty  clergymen  were  in  the  procession, 
which,  preceded  by  Bishop  Potter,  and  the  rector,  marched 
from  the  vestry  room  toward  the  Church,  at  the  entrance 
of  which  they  were  received  by  the  Church  Wardens  and 
Vestrymen,  then  moved  up  the  center  aisle  to  the  com- 
munion table,  chanting  the  seventy-fourth  Psalm. 

The  instrument  of  donation  and  endowment  was  pre- 
sented by  Hon.  John  A.  King,  and  read  by  one  of  the 
Clergy,  while  the  Bishop  was  seated.  The  sentence  of 
consecration,  also  written,  was  placed  in  the  hands  of  the 
Rector,  and  read  by  him  to  the  congregation:  this  was 
returned  to  the  hands  of  the  Bishop,  who  laid  it  upon  the 
communion  table,  after  which  the  service  was  continued 
as  laid  down  in  the  book  of  Common  Prayer. 

Bishop  Potter  in  his  sermon  praised  the  congregation, 
''offering  such  a  beautiful,  substantial  and  suitable  house 
to  the  Lord,"  and  also  gave  a  tribute  well  deserved  to  the 
rector,  ''going  in  and  out  before  the  people  for  more  than 
thirty  years,  always  faithful  to  his  ministerial  trust,  and 
who  now,  when  he  was  growing  old,  receives  from  the 
worthies  of  his  church  tokens  of  their  attachment,  respect 
and  love." 

The  organist  of  the  Dutch  Reformed  Church,  who  had 
during  the  erection  of  the  building,  courteously  furnished 
their  Consistory  Room  on  Union  Ave.  for  the  use  of  the 
worshippers  of  Grace  Church,  was  invited  to  preside  at 
the  new  organ,  and  its  sweet  and  solemn  tones,  under  his 
guidance,  deeply  impressed  the  congregation.  The  same 
courtesy  had  been  extended  to  the  Church  by  the  Presby- 
terians when  the  former  church  was  laid  in  ashes,  and 
gratefully  acknowledged  by  act  of  the  Vestry. 


OF   GRACE    CHURCH  141 

The  services  thus  inaugurated  and  resumed  in  the  new 
church  were  continued  with  great  interest.  The  music 
was  under  the  direction  of  Miss  Virginia  Johnson,  the 
daughter  of  the  rector.  The  prosperity  of  the  Church 
seemed  assured  by  the  increased  congregation,  and  the 
willing  hands  that  now  sustained  what  not  only  appealed 
to  the  piety  but  to  the  respect  of  the  community  for  the 
sacrifices  made  to  sustain  the  worship  of  God,  in  this 
beautiful  sanctuary.  The  Sunday  School  was  conducted 
with  vigor,  prizes  were  given  for  attendance,  and  excel- 
lence in  examinations,  at  the  yearly  celebrations  of  the 
school. 

Rev.  Dr.  Johnson  was  a  Freemason  of  high  degree,  and 
for  this  Fraternity  public  services  on  St,  John,  the  Evan- 
gelist's Day,  and  at  other  times,  were  held  in  Grace 
Church.  On  Dec.  27,  1864,  the  Rector  preached  to  the 
Masons,  in  their  commemoration  of  the  day. 

The  ill  health  of  the  Rector  again  required  his  absence 
in  foreign  travel,  in  the  beginning  of  the  year  1864,  but 
he  returned  after  a  few  months  to  resume  his  pastoral 
duties. 

On  Dec.  5,  1866,  thieves  broke  into  the  Church  and 
took  away  carpets  which  were  afterwards  found  in  a  barn 
where  they  had  long  laid.  Later  on  other  burglaries  were 
successful,  and  the  Church  was  protected  by  a  burglar 
alarm. 

The  missionary  collections  were  good  responses  to  the 
appeals  of  the  Rev.  Dr.  Twjng,  Secretary  of  the  Com- 
mittee of  the  Episcopal  Board  of  Domestic  Missions.  In 
February,  1867,  the  offering  was  $126. 

A  meeting  of  the  Convocation  of  Queens  and  Suffolk 
Counties  was  held  in  Grace  Church  for  two  days,  in  the 


142  ORIGIN    AND    HISTORY 

first  part  of  January,   1868,  and  thereafter  Jamaica  was 
frequently  chosen  for  the  assemblies  of  churchmen. 

Rev.  Mr.  Corneille  remained  as  assistant  minister  to  Dr. 
Johnson  until  May  16,  1863,  and  no  other  was  called  till 
Jan.,  1864,  when  Rev.  Augustus  W.  Cornell  was  en- 
gaged, at  a  salary  of  $600  per  year.  Having  been  ad- 
vanced to  the  priesthood  by  Bishop  Potter  April  1,  he  left 
Jamaica  May  1,  1866,  and  was  succeeded  by  Rev.  Thomas 
Cook,  May  10,  the  same  year,  at  a  salary  of  $800.  Dr. 
Johnson  was  now  unable  to  perform  many  of  the  duties 
of  the  rectorship,  and  for  three  years  his  assistant  did 
efficient  service,  largely  increasing  the  congregation  by  his 
pastoral  labors  and  preaching,  from  the  people  of  Lutheran 
education,  who  were  rapidly  increasing  and  becoming  a 
considerable  part  of  the  township  and  community. 

Mr.  Cook  was  a  popular  lecturer  and  Sunday  School 
worker,  and  was  able  to  gather  a  large  number  into  the 
Sunday  School.  He  undoubtedly  became  assistant  with 
the  expectation  of  succeeding  to  the  rectorship.  On  July 
25,  1869,  Mr.  Cook  began  the  mission  services  in  Clar- 
enceville,  which  resulted  in  the  subsequent  organization  of 
the  Parish  of  the  Church  of  the  Resurrection  at  Richmond 
Hill  in  1874  by  Rev.  Joshua  Kimber,  its  first  rector,  an3 
also  extended  his  mission  activities  to  Queens,  where  he 
laid  the  foundations  of  the  present  St.  Joseph's  Church. 

The  changes  in  the  Vestry  each  year  brought  into  active 
and  influential  churchmanship  such  able  men  as  Judge 
W.  J.  Cogswell,  Alexander  Hagner,  James  J.  Brenton, 
and  Jeremiah  Valentine,  who  were  in  succession  War- 
dens and  Treasurers  and  the  latter  Clerk  of  the  Vestry,  and 
Theodore  J.  Cogswell,  a  very  much  loved  teacher  and 
Superintendent  of  the  Sunday  School. 


OF   GRACE    CHURCH  143 

Miss  Jenny  Aymar  was  appointed  organist  in  1865, 
with  William  Creed  as  organ  assistant.  Lewis  Buckbee 
was  appointed  sexton,  April  24,  1866,  beginning  a  service 
in  that  capacity  which  continued  over  forty  years. 

The  next  year  Mrs.  Charles  King  made  a  notable  gift  of 
tablets  containing  the  Creed,  the  Lord's  Prayer,  and  Ten 
Commandments,  replacing  those  which  had  been  destroyed 
with  the  old  church.  The  Vestry  tendered  her  their 
grateful  acknowledgments,  and  the  sincere  and  heartfelt 
thanks  of  the  congregation,  not  only  for  the  intrinsic 
worth  of  the  gift,  but  also,  "as  a  fitting  memorial  of  one 
whose  pious  and  generous  deeds  have  given  her  honored 
and  cherished  name  a  welcome  place  upon  our  records," 
It  remained  till  the  new  sanctuary  was  built,  and  was 
afterwards  preserved  to  be  erected  in  the  new  parish 
house,  half  a  century  later. 

Again  the  Church  was  burglarized,  Sept.  22,  1868,  and 
vestments  of  the  clergy  and  altar,  including  a  handsome 
and  costly  gold  embroidered  altar-cloth,  were  taken.  They 
were  replaced  in  part  by  subsequent  gifts  by  Mrs.  J.  Ban- 
croft Davis,  a  member  of  the  King  family,  who  the  same 
year  presented  a  beautiful  altar-cloth  to  the  Church. 

Death  was  taking  some  of  the  noblest  and  best  of  this 
happy  parish,  at  this  period  of  its  history.  Rev.  Dr. 
Sayres  passed  away,  and  was  buried  May,  1867,  and  on 
July  8,  two  months  after  those  services,  the  Hon.  John 
Alsop  King,  ex-Governor  of  New  York  died,  the  chief  sup- 
porter of  his  Rector  and  Church,  as  had  been  his  father, 
Hon.  Rufus  King,  at  the  beginning  of  the  century. 

Governor  King  was  stricken  at  the  celebration  of  Fourth 
of  July  by  the  Young  Men's  Literary  Union.  At  the  close 
he  made  a  short  but  memorable  impromptu  address.  "My 


144  ORIGIN    AND    HISTORY 

young  friends,"  he  said,  "upon  you  will  devolve  the  im- 
portant duty  of  maintaining  and  strengthening  the  gov- 
ernment of  your  country.  Those  like  me  have  nearly 
finished  their  work  and  look  to  you  to  carry  forward  your 
country  to  the  great  future  that  awaits  her.  Cultivate  a 
respect  for  religion  and  virtue.  No  people  or  country  can 
prosper  or  become  great  without  this.  Let  your  prayers 
be  not  only  that  those  who  hold  the  positions  of  power 
may  be  wise  and  discreet,  but  have  ambition  to  labor  for 
the  honor  and  glory  of  the  land.  Life  is  all  before  you, 
but  old  men  like  me  are  passing  away." 

Governor  King  was  stricken  with  paralysis  as  he  uttered 
these  words,  and  faltered  in  his  speech,  but  was  caught  in 
the  arms  of  those  near  him  when  falling,  and  carried  to 
the  back  of  the  stage.  Doctors  Hendrickson  and  Barker 
were  soon  at  hand  to  give  such  relief  as  was  possible,  as 
he  remained  for  a  while  conscious.  He  died  on  the  follow- 
ing Sunday  afternoon. 

At  his  death  the  community  was  specially  and  deeply 
moved,  and  on  the  day  of  the  funeral,  while  the  bells 
tolled  and  business  in  Jamaica  ceased  its  activities,  the 
people  crowded  to  take  a  last  look  at  their  distinguished 
friend  and  fellow  citizen.  The  services  were  held  in 
Grace  Church.  The  plain  rosewood  cofiln  with  silver 
handles  bore  a  large  silver  plate  suitably  inscribed: 

JOHN  ALSOP  KING 

SON  OF  RUFUS  AND  MARY  KING 

BORN  JANUARY  9,  1788 

DIED  JULYS,  1867 

A  mural  tablet  of  Italian  marble  was  erected  on  the  wall 
of  Grace  Church,  bearing  an  effigy  of  the  deceased,  and 


OF   GRACE   CHURCH  145 

adding  lo  the  name  and  dates  of  his  birth  and  death  the 
following  inscription: 

A  MOST  BELOVED  AND  HONORED  FATHER 

A  WISE  AND  PURE  STATESMAN 

AN  EMINENT,  USEFUL  AND  LOYAL  CITIZEN 

A  ZEALOUS  MEMBER  AND  WARDEN 

OF  THIS  CHURCH 

A  GOOD  NEIGHBOR,  A  TRUE  FRIEND 

IN  HIS  FAMILY  AFFECTIONATE 

SYMPATHETIC  AND  GENEROUS 

IN  EVERY  TRUST  FAITHFUL 

"He  did  justly,  loved  mercy, 

And  walked  humbly  with  his  God." 
"Be  thou  faithful  unto  death. 
And  I  will  give  thee  a  crown  of  life." 

There  were  more  than  two  thousand  persons  who  took 
a  last  look  at  the  revered  face  of  this  honored  friend  of 
the  poor,  counsellor  of  the  citizens.  Governor  of  the  State, 
and  servant  of  the  Lord  Jesus  Christ,  in  His  church,  as  the 
coffin  lay  surrounded  by  floral  gifts  in  the  large  hall  of  the 
manor. 

A  procession  of  twelve  clergymen  of  neighboring 
churches  and  of  New  York,  his  three  physicians,  the  Vestry 
of  Grace  Church,  trustees  of  the  village  and  its  institutions 
of  education,  numbering  nearly  five  hundred  people,  fol- 
lowed the  honorary  pall-bearers  of  military  and  civic  dis- 
tinction and  the  coffin  to  the  church,  for  the  services,  and 
to  the  graveyard  adjoining,  where  ex-Governor  King  was 
laid  to  rest  with  his  ancestors. 


146  ORIGIN   AND   HISTORY 

The  Vestry  of  Grace  Church,  in  their  resolutions,  com- 
memorated "the  loss  of  one  who  was  endeared  to  this 
parish  by  long  association,  constant  sympathy,  and  by  his 
large  benefactions  to  the  church,  its  charities,  and  its  poor. 
We  are  indeed  bereaved  and  feel  impressed  with  grief;  but 
yet  we  yield  our  hearty  thanks  to  Almighty  God  for  the 
example  of  this  Christian  gentleman  who  has  departed 
this  life  in  his  fear  and  service." 

The  resolutions  were  oiTered  by  Mr.  James  J.  Brenton, 
an  influential  citizen  of  Jamaica,  for  many  years,  and  who 
himself  was  one  of  Governor  King's  ablest  and  prominent 
associates  in  the  Vestry  of  Grace  Church. 

Governor  King  left  a  remarkable  family  to  take  up  his 
work  in  the  Church  and  community.  His  son,  afterwards 
Senator  John  A.  King,  two  daughters.  Miss  Cornelia  King 
and  Mrs.  Sydam,  were  conspicuous  through  the  next  three 
rectorships,  in  works  of  faith,  charity  and  social  activities 
in  Jamaica. 

One  thousand  dollars  were  left  in  Governor  King's  will 
to  the  Church,  to  keep  the  burying  ground  in  order,  and 
land  from  his  estate  was  afterwards  several  times  added 
to  the  churchyard. 

During  this  and  previous  years  several  legacies  were 
left  for  the  Sunday  School  work  of  Grace  Church.  Mr. 
John  Emmons  Napier,  who  died  Oct.  10,  1868,  established 
a  fund  of  S5oo,  the  interest  of  which  was  to  be  used  by 
the  rector  for  the  purchase  of  books  for  the  school.  Misses 
Elizabeth  Woolley  and  Sarah  Woolley  each  bequeathed 
to  Grace  Church  $500,  and  Walter  Nichols  left  $300  for 
the  Sunday  School. 

Three  years  after  his  beloved  Warden  and  helper.  Gov- 
ernor King,  had  been  buried  with  imposing  ceremonial, 


OF   GRACE   CHURCH  447 

Doctor  Johnson  passed  away  to  his  eternal  home.  He 
died  of  apoplexy  Aug.  4,  1870.  He  was  still  holding  the 
rectorship,  continued  for  forty  years.  No  less  honored 
in  his  death  and  burial  than  his  warden  was  this  faithful, 
courteous,  beloved  and  able  preacher  and  devoted  minister 
of  Jesus  Christ. 

On  August  8,  1870,  Bishop  Littlejohn  of  the  Diocese 
of  Long  Island,  and  Bishop  Potter  of  New  York,  with  forty 
of  the  clergy,  with  the  family  and  a  great  concourse  of 
citizens,  moved  in  solemn  procession  from  the  house  to 
the  church,  bearing  the  remains  of  the  deceased  rector. 
After  the  service,  in  which  a  memorial  sermon  was 
preached  by  the  former  assistant.  Rev.  Mr.  Corneille,  his 
body  was  committed  to  the  ground  by  the  two  bishops, 
and  Bishop  Potter  gave  the  solemn  benediction  to  the 
people,  who  in  a  great  throng  nearly  filled  the  churchyard. 

The  resolutions  of  the  Vestry  speak  of  the  loss  of  a  lov- 
ing friend,  a  faithful  priest  and  a  wise  and  learned  teacher. 
"He  merited  and  won  the  atTections  of  the  young,  and  the 
confidence  and  respect  of  elder  Christians.  During  the 
long  period  of  his  service  he  was  a  friend  and  adviser  in 
prosperity  and  a  minister  of  consolation  in  times  of  trial 
and  sorrow.  By  his  decease,  a  relation  has  terminated, 
which  established  as  it  was  in  mutual  love  and  confidence, 
only  grew  stronger  and  firmer  with  the  lapse  of  time." 

A  similar  expression  of  their  esteem  and  affection  was 
made  by  the  members  of  Jamaica  Masonic  Lodge,  who 
had  added  their  ritual  to  the  obsequies  of  the  church  at 
the  burial. 

A  fitting  memorial  was  placed  in  the  new  sanctuary  of 
Grace  Church,  thirty-two  years  later,  by  one  of  his  sons. 
It  was  a  large  and  beautiful  altar  of  Eschallion  marble, 


148  ORIGIN    AND    HISTORY 

near  where  he  had  eloquently  preached  the  gospel  of  love 
and  pardon,  and  also  offered  the  sacrifice  of  the  Holy 
Eucharist. 

Doctor  Johnson's  parish  was  undivided,  and  the  people 
well  united  by  social  affinities  and  educational  influences 
during  his  prosperous  ministry.  His  salary,  and  that  of 
his  assistant,  Mr.  Cook,  was  increased  to  $1,200  each  in 
the  last  two  years.  The  Vestry  voted  to  continue  Dr. 
Johnson's  salary  till  Jan.  1,  1871,  and  to  pay  the  expenses 
of  his  illness  and  funeral. 

Doctor  Johnson  left  three  children,  J.  G.  Johnson  of 
New  York,  Miss  Virginia  Johnson  and  Mrs.  Shepperson 
of  Brooklyn.  His  wife,  who  was  Miss  Mary  Elizabeth 
Whitlock,  died  long  before  him.  May  19,  1848. 

The  Vestry  did  not  continue  the  relation  of  Rev.  Thomas 
Cook,  but  gave  a  donation  from  the  Vestry  of  $600,  for 
his  efficient  services  as  assistant  minister  in  charge  to  Dr. 
Johnson. 

For  a  year  and  a  half  the  procuring  of  officiating  minis- 
ters was  committed  to  Warden  J.  J.  Brenton,  and  $20  a 
Sunday  was  allowed  to  the  clergymen,  and  $400  expended 
in  the  salary  of  organist  and  assistant  sexton  and  special 
needs  of  the  Sunday  School,  until  the  election  of  the 
twelfth  rector,  the  Rev.  George  Williamson  Smith. 


OF  GRACE   CHURCH  149 

The  Modem  Period 

CHAPTER  XV. 

The  Ministry  and  Life  of  the  Church  in  the  Rectorship  of 

Rev.  George  Williamson  Smith,  S.  T.  D., 

LL.  D.— 1872-1881. 

This  period  of  our  history  includes  the  rectorships  of 
clergymen  still  living  and  active,  though  retired  from  their 
official  positions.  Their  ministry  completed  two  hundred 
years  of  the  Church's  life,  and  extended  ten  years  into  the 
third  century.  Three  of  them  took  charge  in  Jamaica 
with  only  a  few  years'  experience  of  pastoral  duty,  and 
undertook  larger  responsibilities  after  leaving  Jamaica. 

The  most  distinguished  of  these.  Rev.  George  William- 
son Smith,  came  to  Jamaica  early  in  his  career,  at  a  time 
auspicious  for  his  success  in  establishing  the  position  of 
Grace  Church  in  the  new  diocese  of  Long  Island.  There 
she  stood,  as  first  in  priority  of  organization  and  in  the 
ministry  of  rectors.  She  was  eminent  in  the  reputation 
of  her  membership,  and  in  the  service  her  ministers  and 
communicants  had  rendered  to  the  Church  in  America, 
and  was  well  fitted  to  take  an  important  part  in  the  found- 
ing of  charitable  institutions  and  missionary  organizations 
for  the  extension  of  the  diocese.  It  was  an  interesting 
field  for  the  exercise  of  churchmanship  such  as  Bishop 
Littlejohn,  who  had  been  elected  and  consecrated  in  1869, 
called  upon  his  presbyters  to  sustain.  There  was  an  en- 
thusiasm needed  in  forming  the  relations  of  the  churches, 


150  ORIGIN   AND    HISTORY 

and  laying  out  their  work  on  broad  lines  for  the  develop- 
ment of  this  important  diocese,  and  Rev.  Mr.  Smith  was 
well  fitted  to  be  a  leader  in  the  administration  of  its  affairs 
under  such  a  bishop,  whose  high  scholarship  and  fore- 
thought and  plans  demanded  equally  able  and  intelligent 
clergy  to  assist  him  in  his  measures  for  the  prosperity  of 
the  Episcopal  Church  in  Long  Island. 

Mr.  Smith  had  a  personality  which  could  attract  and 
inspire  confidence  in  his  parishioners.  He  had  a  com- 
manding stature,  a  scholarly  mind,  a  strong  will  and  a 
warm  heart.  He  had  quick  sympathy  with  suffering,  and 
a  disposition  to  personal  sacrifice  for  its  relief,  which  had 
been  strengthened  in  his  experiences  during  the  momen- 
tous struggles  of  the  nation  in  the  Civil  War.  He  had 
been  patriotic  in  thought  and  impulse,  in  those  scenes 
which  tried  his  principles  to  the  utmost.  His  first  services 
after  receiving  holy  orders  had  been  as  Chaplain  in  the 
Navy,  and  he  came  out  of  them  sharing  that  heroic  spirit 
which  American  citizenship  possessed  through  the  per- 
sonal sacrifices  in  that  strife  for  the  maintenance  of  the 
Union,  that  ennobled  the  whole  nation. 

George  Williamson  Smith  was  born  at  Catskill,  N.  Y., 
Nov.  21,  1836.  He  graduated  at  Hobart  College  in  1857, 
and  received  the  diploma  of  Master  of  Arts  in  his  College 
in  i860.  He  was  principal  of  Bladensburg  Academy, 
Maryland,  for  a  year,  and  there  married  Miss  Susanna 
Duval.  For  three  years  he  was  clerk  in  the  Navy  Depart- 
ment, from  1861  to  1864,  and  was  appointed  Chaplain 
of  the  United  States  in  1865,  acting  Professor  of  Mathe- 
matics at  the  Naval  Academy,  Newport,  for  a  year,  and 
Chaplain  of  the  Naval  Academy  at  Annapolis  for  three 
years,  and,  in  1868,  Chaplain  of  the  U.  S.  S.  Franklin, 
where  he  remained  till  1871. 


OF  GRACE   CHURCH  l5l 

His  service  as  Chaplain  made  a  deep  impression  on  his 
character,  developing  a  sturdy  patriotism  and  a  sympathy 
with  the  manly  traits  of  American  seamen,  and  especially 
their  courage  in  the  rough  experiences  of  war. 

Mr.  Smith  was  elected  rector  of  Grace  Church  at  a 
salary  of  $2,000  per  annum,  and  $500  additional  per  year 
till  a  rectory  should  be  provided.  He  accepted  the  elec- 
tion Feb.  6,  1872.  The  Vestry  that  called  him  to  this 
rectorship  were  Messrs.  W.  J.  Cogswell,  J.  J.  Brenton 
(Wardens),  M.  G.  Johnson,  S.  S.  Aymar,  Alexander  Hag- 
ner,  John  B.  Napier,  William  J.  Sayres,  Nathaniel  Vander- 
verg  and  Jeremiah  Valentine. 

The  following  May  the  residence  of  Carlos  Butler,  at  62 
Clinton  Avenue,  was  purchased  for  a  rectory  for  $9,000, 
and  $700  appropriated  for  its  furnishing. 

Jamaica  was  still  remote  from  the  rapidly  developing 
activities  of  New  York.  City  and  Brooklyn,  to  which  cities 
it  had  for  many  years  the  slow  transportation  facilities  of 
a  horse  car,  afterwards  made  into  a  trolley  line.  The  in- 
land towns  of  Queens  were  not  yet  in  railroad  connection 
with  the  Long  Island  ferry.  Yet  these  gradually  improv- 
ing methods  of  transit  were  overcome  by  the  energy  of 
some  of  the  leading  citizens,  who  did  their  business  and 
followed  their  professions  in  New  York,  and  the  outlook 
for  future  prosperity  and  importance  of  Jamaica  was  an 
encouragement  to  make  a  strong  parish. 

The  new  rector  was  fortunate  in  his  helpers.  The  King 
family  were  still  as  prominent  and  steadfast  as  ever  in  the 
affairs  of  the  parish.  Mr.  John  A.  King  had  moved  into 
his  father's  residence,  where  his  mother  was  still  living 
and  where  Miss  Cornelia  King,  his  sister,  as  strong  and 
vigorous  and  devoted  a  churchwoman  as  the  diocese  pos- 


152  ORIGIN    AND    HISTORY 

sessed,  stood  ready  also  to  co-operate  with  him  in  all  mis- 
sionary and  charitable  labors.  The  Aymars,  Barkers, 
Bessemers,  Betts,  Brentons,  Cogswells,  Cranes,  Dentons, 
Hagners,  Hicks,  Gales,  Napiers,  Sayres  and  Stocking 
families,  men  and  women,  were  perhaps  the  most  promi- 
nent, among  many  others  in  the  parish,  to  be  relied  upon 
to  take  responsible  action  in  maintaining  the  services  and 
finances  of  the  Church,  the  expanding  influence  of  the 
Sunday  School,  the  zealous  efforts  to  evangelize  and  ex- 
tend the  traditions  of  the  parish  whose  boundaries  (the 
same  as  the  original  township  of  Jamaica)  by  the  provi- 
sions of  the  Royal  Charter  were  confirmed  by  the  canons 
of  the  diocese  of  Long  Island. 

A  notable  death  in  the  second  year  of  this  ministry 
began  a  series  of  afflictions  which  came  rapidly  upon  this 
prosperous  Church,  and  saddened  the  hearts  of  the  rector 
and  his  coworkers.  Mrs.  Mary  Golden  King,  the  mother 
of  the  late  ex-Governor  King,  died  in  August,  1873,  loved 
and  respected  by  the  people  of  the  Church  and  by  all  who 
knew  her.  Her  children  endowed  a  bed  in  St.  John's  hos- 
pital in  her  remembrance  to  be  at  the  disposition  of  the 
rector.  Church  Wardens  and  Vestry  of  Grace  Church.  A 
memorial  lectern  of  carved  black  oak,  in  the  form  of  a 
Greek  cross,  surmounted  by  an  eagle  holding  the  support 
to  the  Bible,  was  placed  on  the  steps  leading  to  the  choir, 
by  Miss  Cornelia  King,  also  in  loving  memory  of  her 
mother. 

A  memorial  tablet  of  brass  to  Theodore  J.  Cogswell,  for 
his  membership  and  service  for  twenty-five  years  as 
scholar,  teacher,  and  Superintendent  was  placed  upon  the 
walls  of  the  school-room.  Mr.  Cogswell  was  born  Jan. 
27,  1843,  and  died  Nov.  22,  1877.  He  was  an  earnest 
and  active  Christian,  with  traits  that  endeared  him  not 


OF   GRACE   CHURCH  lS3 

only  to  his  family,  but  to  those  for  whom  in  the  com- 
munity he  was  ever  read}^  to  sacrifice  himself.  He  was 
especially  a  friend  of  the  young  for  whom  he  untiringly 
labored  in  the  work  of  the  Sunday  School. 

On  April  9,  1880,  the  Vestry  recorded  the  death  of  their 
late  associate,  Alexander  Hagner,  who  had  been  for  seven- 
teen years  a  Vestryman,  conspicuous  in  their  deliberations, 
"while  his  strong  common  sense  and  sound  judgment 
caused  his  counsel  to  be  of  more  than  ordinary  value  and 
weight  in  shaping  the  legislation  pertaining  to  this  parish." 
Mr.  Hagner  was  described  in  their  resolutions  as  "one  who 
was  widely  known  and  highly  respected  in  the  community, 
where  he  filled  most  acceptably  many  honored  and  im- 
portant positions." 

In  1878  there  was  an  expression  of  the  interest  and 
loyalty  of  the  congregation  to  the  missions  of  the  Church, 
which  was  specially  honorable  to  the  Rev.  William  Sea- 
man Sayres,  the  grandson  of  their  former  rector,  who  had 
accepted  an  appointment  as  missionary  to  China.  There 
was  presented  to  him  through  the  Vestry  the  sum  of  ^270, 
as  an  evidence  of  their  "approbation  of  the  earnestness, 
piety  and  devotion  which  characterized  the  ministry"  of 
their  young  brother. 

The  work  of  the  Church  Charity  Foundation  excited 
the  special  interest  of  the  Jamaica  congregation.  Mrs. 
Smith,  the  rector's  wife,  and  Miss  Cornelia  King  were 
associate  managers.  Miss  King  later  on  became  the  presi- 
dent of  the  board  of  managers,  which  position  she  held 
for  many  years. 

The  Woman's  Missionary  Aid,  Mrs.  G.  W.  Smith  as 
president  and  Mrs.  C.  A.  Beldin  treasurer,  Mrs.  Gilbert 
Sayres  vice-president  and  Miss  Lizzie  Sayres  secretary, 


154  ORIGIN    AND    HISTORY 

was  a  steady  contributor  to  the  missions  supported  by 
the  women  ,and  the  General  Board. 

The  mission  services,  at  what  is  now  Richmond  Hill, 
were  maintained  by  Mr.  Benjamin  J.  Brenton,  and  occa- 
sional ministrations  by  the  rector.  They  increased  and 
prospered,  and  the  parish  of  the  Church  of  the  Resurrec- 
tion was  set  off,  and  the  corner-stone  of  the  Church  laid 
Dec.  28,  1877. 

The  Charitable  Association  of  Grace  Church  was  organ- 
ized during  Mr.  Smith's  ministry.  Its  officers  were  the 
rector,  Benjamin  J.  Brenton  (president),  Gilbert  Sayres 
(secretary),  J.  Augustus  Lodge  (treasurer).  The  monthly 
offering  of  each  member  was  not  to  exceed  twenty-five 
cents,  and  it  became  popular  and  a  vigorous  aid  to  the 
home  benefactions,  and  care  of  the  poor  and  sick  of  the 
community.  The  Woman's  Missionary  Aid  Society  re- 
ceived one-fourth  of  the  subscriptions. 

The  decrease  of  income  from  Grace  Parish  by  pew  rents, 
investments  and  offerings  was  noticeable  in  Dr.  Smith's 
rectorship.  In  1873  it  amounted  to  $11,301.00,  in  1875 
to  $8,348.52,  and  subsequent  years,  till  1880,  to  an  aver- 
age of  over  $6,500.  In  1873  the  gifts  to  missions  were 
$1,445.68,  in  1880  they  were  $778.07,  in  the  intervening 
years  they  fell  to  about  one-half  the  latter  sum  annually. 
Other  charities  amounted  to  about  $1,500  yearly.  There 
was,  in  1880,  a  communicant  list  of  278,  and  521  mem- 
bers of  the  congregation.  The  religious  education  of  the 
children  of  the  parish  was  carefully  fostered.  The  Sunday 
School  flourished  so  much  as  to  require  enlargement  of 
the  Sunday  School  building.  The  Sunday  School  for 
colored  people,  conducted  by  Miss  Phebe  Hagner  for  many 
years,  was  under  her  care  and  that  of  Mrs.  Bessemer.  This 


OF   GRACE    CHURCH  155 

school  was  established  as  early  as  1837,  as  a  week-day 
school.  Samuel  W.  Berry  was  the  first  teacher;  the  pupils 
numbered  25  boys  and  35  girls.  Visitors  to  this  school 
published  statements  that  the  colored  children  of  those 
days  were  not  a  whit  behind  white  children  of  the  same 
age  and  reared  under  like  disadvantages. 

Dr.  Smith  was  a  pastor  whose  ministrations  to  the  sick 
were  faithful  and  sympathetic.  His  work  as  Chaplain  had 
specially  fitted  him  to  be  a  loved  helper  to  the  distressed. 
He  had  there  won  the  commendation  of  Admiral  Rodgers 
of  the  U.  S.  S.  Franklin,  when  the  smallpox  broke  out 
among  the  crew,  and  sixty  of  the  seamen  were  prostrated 
by  it.  A  building  on  shore  was  obtained  for  a  hospital, 
and  the  Chaplain  left  his  comfortable  quarters  to  live  in  a 
pest  house,  ''where  he  was  always  found  by  the  side  of  the 
sick  men,  praying  with  them,  talking  to  them,  making 
their  wills,  and  in  every  way  striving  to  minister  to  their 
comfort."  Chaplain  Smith  succumbed  at  last  to  the  ex- 
haustion which  was  caused  by  the  constant  work  of  body 
and  mind  he  had  undergone  for  weeks.  He,  however, 
escaped  the  disease  against  which  he  had  not  been  guarded 
by  vaccination  when  he  undertook  this  brave  work  of 
ministering  to  those  sick  and  dying  of  this  malignant 
disease. 

There  were  several  families  of  clergymen  in  the  congre- 
gation at  this  time,  who  were  staunch  supporters  of  the 
rector,  and  enjoyed  his  forcible  and  able  preaching  and 
fellowship.  Of  the  ministers  who  were  neighbors,  and  in 
frequent  association  with  him,  were  especially  Rev.  W. 
H.  Carmichael,  a  retired  clergyman,  and  Rev.  Samuel  S. 
Stocking,  in  charge  of  the  church  at  Massapequa,  and 
conducting  in  Jamaica  a  boys'  school  on  Clinton  Avenue, 
where  the  larg^  and  stately  house  he  occupied,  with  its 


156  ORIGIN   AND    HISTORY 

extensive  rose  garden  filled  with  choicest  plants,  is  still 
occupied  by  his  aged  widow.  The  third  clergyman  was 
Rev.  Beverly  R.  Betts,  librarian  of  Columbia  College. 

In  1880,  Mr.  Smith  received  the  honorary  degree  of 
Doctor  of  Sacred  Theology  (S.  T.  D.)  from  Hobart  Col- 
lege. He  was  now  in  the  prime  of  his  powers,  and  desired 
a  field  more  suited  to  his  aggressive  mind,  for  Jamaica  was 
at  a  standstill,  and  still  much  aflfected  by  its  traditions  of 
nearly  two  centuries.  He  received  an  election  from  the 
Church  of  the  Redeemer  in  Brooklyn,  and  accepted  this 
call  to  what  he  hoped  might  be  or  lead  to  a  larger  work 
for  him. 

While  there,  he  was  elected  President  of  Trinity  College, 
where  he  had  a  distinguished  career  of  twenty  years,  in 
which  that  college  made  great  progress  in  every  way,  and 
enlarged  its  finances,  buildings  and  the  number  of  its  stu- 
dents. Dr.  Smith,  as  President  of  this  church  institution, 
received  numerous  honors. 

The  degree  of  S.  T.  D.  was  conferred  upon  him  by  Co- 
lumbia University  in  1887.  He  was  made  Doctor  of  Laws 
by  Trinity  the  same  year,  Doctor  of  Divinity  by  Williams 
College  in  1889,  and  by  Yale  in  1901,  and  having  been 
retired  as  Professor  Emeritus  in  1904,  he  went  abroad. 

What  Dr.  Smith  thought  of  his  people  and  church  in 
Jamaica  was  acknowledged  in  his  eloquent  sermon  at  the 
consecration  of  the  Church  after  the  erection  of  the  new 
sanctuary  in  1902. 

One  of  the  most  important  works  for  Grace  Church  at 
the  close  of  Dr.  Smith's  administration  was  the  publica- 
tion by  Mr.  Henry  Onderdonk,  Jr.,  of  the  "Antiquities  of 
the  Parish  Church,  Jamaica,  with  a  Continuation  of  the 


l\v\.  (livoKi;!-:  W'ii.MA.Msox    Smith.   D.   !)..   LL.   D. 
(  IMioUigraph  Talxrii  in    iS:_'4. ) 


l\i;\.   William    M.    Uottonl 


l\i\.    I'.DWiN    r>.    [\H 


OF   GRACE   CHURCH  157 

History  of  Grace  Church."  This  was  published  at  Jamaica, 
N.  Y.,  by  Charles  Welling,  1880. 

It  was  the  diligence  of  many  years  which  accomplished 
this  collection  of  facts  and  documents  and  current  items 
that  make  up  the  substance  of  this  valuable  book.  It  is 
rather  a  compendium  of  history  than  a  condensed  and 
lively  narrative,  but  it  was  the  fruit  of  much  research  and 
reading  and  accurate  transcription  of  material  from  many 
sources.  It  made  faithful  use  of  the  records  of  the  Vestry, 
and  registers  of  the  rectors  and  ministers,  through  l5o 
years,  and  an  invaluable  service  was  rendered  by  this 
gentleman  and  scholar,  who  gave  a  labor  of  love  for  the 
church  and  community  where  so  many  of  his  years  were 
spent  in  educating  the  sons  and, daughters  of  Long  Island 
families. 

This  memorial  has  acknowledged  already  the  author's 
indebtedness  to  Mr.  Onderdonk. 


158  ORIGIN    AND    HISTORY 


CHAPTER  XVI. 

The  Rectorship  of  Rev.  Edwin  B.  Rice — 1882-1892. 

Rev.  Edwin  B.  Rice  was  assistant  minister  of  Holy 
Trinity  Church,  42d  street,  in  New  York,  when  he  was 
elected  by  the  Vestry  as  successor  to  Dr.  Smith  in  May, 
1882.  He  was  a  graduate  of  the  University  of  the  City  of 
New  York  in  1876,  and  of  the  Theological  Seminary  at 
Alexandria,  Virginia.  He  began  his  ministry  June  18,  1882. 

Mr.  Rice  received  his  ordination  as  priest  from  Rt.  Rev. 
Horatio  Potter,  D.  D.,  Dec.  19,  1879,  and  immediately 
entered  upon  his  duties  as  an  assistant  minister  at~Holy 
Trinity.  He  was  thirty  years  old,  and  unmarried,  when 
he  came  to  Jamaica. 

At  this  time  the  walls  of  the  church  had  been  tinted,  and 
other  improvements  in  the  furnishings  made,  and  the  Sun- 
day School  had  been  presented  with  an  Estey  chapel  organ 
of  good  tone. 

Mr.  Rice  made  a  good  impression  with  his  first  sermon, 
and  justified  the  expectations  of  the  people  that  they  were 
to  have  an  able  and  attractive  preacher,  a  consecrated 
rector  and  a  devout  ministrant  at  the  altar. 

He  had  a  pleasing  personality,  and  the  young  people  and 
children  of  the  congregation  and  Sunday  School  rallied 
with  enthusiasm  at  the  sessions  of  the  Sunday  School,  and 
the  numerous  entertainments  of  a  religious  character,  and 
annual  excursions,  which  were  made  for  them. 


OF   GRACE   CHURCH  159 

The  classes  preparing  for  confirmation  were  also  con- 
siderably increased.  The  congregations  were  revived  in 
numbers  and  spirit,  and  their  total  offerings  the  first  year 
of  this  rectorship,  other  than  pew  rents,  were  $2,913.98, 
the  pew  rents  $1,915.12,  and  the  revenue  from  the  prop- 
erty and  investments  of  the  church  $1,580.  Bishop 
Littlejohn  confirmed  on  Ascension  Day  twenty-one,  who 
were  presented  by  the  rector  as  his  first  class.  A  new 
choir-master,  Mr.  Rand,  took  charge  of  the  music,  and  the 
services  on  Christmas  and  Easter,  and  other  anniversaries 
of  the  Church  and  Sunday  School,  were  greatly  improved. 

In  entering  upon  his  duties  Mr.  Rice  had  won  the  good 
will  of  his  people,  who  carried  on  the  usual  activities  of 
the  church  and  parish.  No  change  was  attempted,  during 
Mr.  Rice's  rectorship,  for  the  enlargement  of  buildings,  or 
in  the  ritual  of  the  services.  The  rector's  special  effort 
to  institute  the  early  celebration  of  Holy  Communion  was 
a  lasting  benefit  to  the  worshippers.  It  has  continued  to 
the  present  time,  and  ever  will  be  associated  with  Mr. 
Rice's  direction  of  the  ordinances  of  the  Church. 

An  event  of  rare  occurrence  in  Grace  Church  took  place 
in  the  second  year  of  Mr.  Rice's  ministry.  This  was  the 
marriage  of  the  rector  himself.  His  bride  was  Miss  Zelia 
C.  Hicks,  eldest  daughter  of  Major  George  A.  Hicks,  a 
well  known  citizen  of  Jamaica.  The  ceremony  was  per- 
formed in  the  church,  on  Jan.  3rd,  1884,  at  half  past  two 
in  the  afternoon.  The  day  was  cold  and  clear,  and  the 
Christmas  decorations  harmonized  with  those  specially 
appropriate  for  the  occasion.  The  marriage  was  per- 
formed by  the  Bishop  of  Long  Island,  with  whom  there 
were  six  clergymen  in  the  chancel,  friends  of  the  bride- 
groom. They  were  Rev.  W.  H.  Moore  of  Hempstead;  Dr. 
W.  F.  VVatkins  of  the  church  of  the  Holy  Trinity,  New 


160  ORIGIN    AND    HISTORY 

York;  Rev.  S.  S.  Stocking  of  Jamaica;  Rev.  Melville  Boyd, 
Rector  of  All  Saints,  Brooklyn;  and  Rev.  W.  P.  Brush  of 
Brooklyn.  The  ushers  were  Messrs.  G.  B.  Sayres,  George 
K.  Meynen  and  A.  Henderson  of  Jamaica,  and  Arthur  W. 
Rice  of  New  York.  After  the  ceremony  a  large  reception 
was  given  at  the  residence  of  the  bride's  parents,  on  Clin- 
ton Avenue.  The  congregation  of  Grace  Church  pre- 
sented the  rector  with  a  handsome  wedding  gift,  which 
was  placed  among  many  others  given  to  the  bride. 

One  of  the  elTorts  for  the  children  of  the  congregation  in 
the  previous  rectorship  was  a  sewing  school,  with  some 
other  industrial  education  of  a  practical  kind.  This  school 
was  continued,  and  was  conducted  by  some  of  the  most 
active  women  of  the  church.  Miss  Wooley,  Miss  Mary 
Rhinelander  King  and  others  took  great  interest  in  guiding 
the  young  people  through  their  own  efforts  to  active  sup- 
port of  missions  for  the  needy  and  untaught  peoples  of 
the  home  field. 

There  could  be  no  more  zealous  workers  in  the  Sunday 
School  and  missionary  Society  than  those  with  whom  the 
rector  took  counsel,  and  through  whom  he  accomplished 
much:  Mrs.  Belden,  Mrs.  Cogswell,  Mrs.  Stocking,  Mrs. 
Lamphear,  Miss  Hagner,  Miss  M.  R.  King,  Mrs.  Denton, 
Mrs.  Hicks,  Mrs.  Stewart,  Mrs.  Starr  Edwards,  Mrs.  C. 
Edwards,  and  Miss  Amberman  were  some  of  the  workers 
in  the  missionary  organization. 

No  one  would  fail  to  recognize  the  moving  spirit  of  all 
Christian  effort.  Miss  Cornelia  King,  who  was  now,  in 
the  last  few  years  of  her  useful  life,  upholding  the  rector 
and  the  Church,  and  blessing  the  community  by  her 
Christian  example  and  beneficence.  Bishop  Littlejohn 
said  of  her  in  a  Diocesan  Convention  address  after  her 


OF   GRACE    CHURCH  l6l 

death,  ''Miss  Cornelia  King's  culture,  devotion  and  earnest- 
ness put  her  well  in  the  front  rank  of  the  churchmen  of 
Long  Island.  Out  of  an  old  and  distinguished  Church 
family  she  did  much  to  enrich  a  record  already  conspicu- 
ous for  good  deeds  and  pure  lives.  As  president  of  the 
Board  of  Associates  of  the  Church  Charity  Foundation, 
and  president  of  the  Board  of  Managers  of  St.  Phebe's 
Mission  House,  she  labored  incessantly  to  increase  the 
support  and  to  extend  the  usefulness  of  both.  There  was 
no  charity  or  mission  in  the  diocese  that  did  not  command 
her  sympathy,  and,  when  needed,  her  active  help.  There 
was  much  in  her  work,  her  life,  and  her  character  that 
recalled  many  of  the  godly  women  who  figure  in  the  Gos- 
pel narratives  and  in  the  epistle  of  St.  Paul." 

The  death  of  Mr.  James  Eldred  Brenton,  a  member  of 
the  Vestry  for  many  years,  a  venerated  Warden,  and  for 
forty  years  a  parishioner  of  Grace  Church,  made  a  break 
in  the  happy  current  of  Church  life,  and  which  was  fol- 
lowed by  others  that,  like  the  recurrence  of  affliction  in 
Mr.  Benjamin  Brenton's  family,  could  but  deepen  their 
sorrow.  Miss  Theodora  Brenton,  wife  of  Mr.  Clement  E. 
Gardiner,  died  September  17,  1883.  A  memorial  window 
of  the  best  English  manufacture,  having  for  its  central 
subject  St.  Cecilia,  was  placed  opposite  Mr.  Brenton's 
pew.  She  died  at  the  age  of  twenty  years,  having  rare 
accomplishments. 

The  inscription  below  states,  in  pathetic  memory  of  her 
departure, 

''AND  SHE  PASSED  AWAY  TO  JESUS 
WITH  THE  SINGING  OF  THE  HYMN." 

This  was  the  first  of  the  stained  glass  windows  which  now 
adorn  the  Church. 


162  ORIGIN    AND    HISTORY 

A  rich  and  costly  alms  basin  was  given  in  the  first  year 
of  Mr.  Rice's  ministry  to  Grace  Church  by  the  Rev.  Dr. 
Eigenbrodt  and  his  sister,  as  a  memorial  of  their  deceased 
sister,  Mrs.  Vandervoort.  It  was  used  on  the  first  Sunday 
in  February,  1882.  It  has  the  inscription  on  the  face, 
"The  Lord  remembers  thine  otferings,"  and  on  the  reverse, 
the  initials  of  the  donors  and  date  of  the  gift,  with  the 
memorial.  The  basin  is  of  great  beauty  and  a  massive 
silver  piece  of  artistic  design. 

The  later  years  of  this  pastorate  were  affected  by  Mr. 
Rice's  impaired  health.  An  affection  of  the  throat  became 
a  serious  hindrance  to  his  preaching,  and  to  all  the  public 
relations  of  a  pastor.  After  contending  with  this  trouble 
for  two  years  Mr.  Rice  determined  to  relinquish  his  charge. 
His  resignation  took  effect  in  1892. 

Mr.  and  Mrs.  Rice  made  their  home  in  Mount  Vernon, 
New  York,  where  with  their  children  born  in  Jamaica, 
Zelia  Stanton,  and  Bessie  Sheridan  Rice,  they  still  have 
their  residence.  Mr.  Rice  left  a  record  of  159  baptisms, 
111  confirmations,  50  marriages  and  226  burials. 

He  was  obliged  to  relinquish  active  work  in  the  minis- 
try, but  was  entered  upon  the  staff  at  the  Church  Mission 
House  in  New  York,  where  his  rhetorical  and  literary 
'talents  are  employed  in  an  editorial  capacity,  preparing 
the  publications  of  the  Board  of  Protestant  Episcopal 
Missions. 

The  Vestry  received  through  the  rector  a  request  from 
the  people  of  Hollis  for  the  privileges  of  the  Church  to  be 
given  to  them.  This  part  of  Jamaica  was  two  miles  from 
Grace  Church.  The  mission  was  conducted  by  the  rector, 
assisted  by  some  faithful  workers,  and  so  the  foundations 
were  laid  for  the  Church  of  St.  Gabriel  in  the  Sunday 


OF   GRACE    CHURCH  163 

School  which  was  begun  together  with  the  less  frequent 
services  of  the  Church.  Within  three  years  the  present 
church  building  was  completed  by  the  aid  of  the  Cathedral 
authorities,  who  also  furnished  the  stipend  of  the  mission- 
ary in  charge.  It  was  dedicated  in  the  autumn  of  1896, 
and  the  next  year  a  rectory  was  built.  It  has  been  ever 
since  a  prosperous  mission,  in  charge  of  several  successive 
ministers  and  under  the  direction  of  the  Dean  of  the 
Cathedral. 

The  death  of  Hon.  William  J.  Cogswell  during  Mr. 
Rice's  ministry,  in  March,  1885,  at  the  age  of  eighty-five 
years,  brought  from  the  Vestry  a  statement  of  the  long  and 
valuable  services  he  had  rendered  to  the  Church  and 
community. 

Mr.  Cogswell  came  to  Jamaica  from  Connecticut  in 
1834,  and  as  a  lawyer  and  churchman  soon  became  hon- 
ored, respected  and  loved  by  his  fellow  citizens.  He  was 
made  a  Vestryman  in  1842,  and  a  Warden  in  1862.  He 
was  appointed  Judge  and  Surrogate  of  Queens  County  in 
1849,  in  place  of  Henry  I.  Hagner,  deceased. 

Judge  Cogswell  was  ''learned  and  upright  as  a  Judge, 
eminent  and  able  as  a  lawyer,  and  distinguished  as  a  citi- 
zen by  a  singular  and  inflexible  integrity  of  thought  and 
purpose.  For  thirty-four  years,  as  Vestryman  and  Warden 
of  this  Church,  he  exemplified  in  his  life  its  holy  doctrines 
and  divine  precepts." 

"Judge  Cogswell's  benefactions  to  the  Church,  which 
were  frequent  and  generous,  are  borne  in  grateful  remem- 
brance; his  interest  in  and  devotion  to  this  parish  form  a 
part  of  its  history,  and  combined  with  his  sound  judgment, 
strong  character  and  kindliness  of  disposition,  rendered 
him  capable  of  great  usefulness  as  an  administrator,  and 


164  ORIGIN   AND    HISTORY 

endeared  him  to  his  brethren  of  the  Vestry.  Nor  were  his 
activities  and  zeal  confined  to  the  limits  of  his  own  parish; 
he  was  deeply  interested  in  the  organization  of  this  diocese 
— of  which  he  was  for  several  years  a  member  of  its  stand- 
ing committee — and  to  few  more  than  himself  is  its  success 
to  be  attributed." 

Judge  Cogswell  removed  from  the  parish  in  1876,  when 
his  official  connection  with  it  ceased.  Of  his  three  sons, 
William  S.,  Theodore  J.  and  George,  two  became  lawyers, 
and  George  died  a  soldier  in  the  Civil  War.  William  S. 
enlisted  in  a  Connecticut  regiment,  and  after  an  active 
service  through  the  war,  retired  with  the  rank  of  brevet- 
Colonel. 

Col.  Cogswell  was  elected  Vestryman  in  1874,  and  like 
his  father  has  rendered  invaluable  services  to  the  Church 
ever  since  as  Vestryman  and  Warden  for  forty  years. 

Theodore  was  a  lay  reader  and  Superintendent  of  the 
Sunday  School  of  Grace  Church,  and  at  the  Clarenceville 
(Richmond  Hill)  Missions,  and  died  at  an  early  age  in 
1878,  possessing  the  efficient  qualities  of  his  father,  and 
greatly  lamented  in  the  community. 

Among  the  gifts  of  Judge  W.  J.  Cogswell  to  the  parish 
was  the  addition  to  the  rectory  on  Clinton  Avenue  for  the 
rector's  study. 


OF   GRACE    CHURCH  165 


CHAPTER  XVII. 

The  Ministry  of  Rev.  William  M.  Bottome— 1893-1896. 

This  was  comparatively  a  short  period  in  which  to  add  to 
the  growth  or  make  important  changes  in  a  Church;  yet 
no  one  who  served  Grace  Church  had  warmer  friends 
than  Mr.  Bottome,  and  his  memory  is  associated  with  no 
painful  discords  in  the  congregation.  He  brought  into  the 
life  of  the  Church  kindlier  feelings  and  ennobling  motives, 
in  the  individual  relationships  of  the  communicants.  He 
was  the  son  of  an  English  clergyman  of  the  Wesleyan 
Methodist  Church;  Mrs.  Margaret  Bottome,  his  mother, 
was  a  woman  of  beautiful  character  and  piety,  v/hich  was 
impressed  on  unnumbered  lives  by  her  founding  of  the 
order  of  Kings  Daughters  in  evangelical  churches  in 
America  and  Great  Britain,  and  her  devotional  writings. 

Rev.  William  McDonald  Bottome  was  born  in  Meriden, 
Connecticut.  His  father.  Rev.  Francis  Bottome,  D.  D., 
was  an  Englishman  by  birth,  who  entered  the  Wesleyan 
Methodist  ministry  as  a  missionary  in  Canada  and  re- 
moved to  Brooklyn,  N.  Y.,  where  he  was  received  into  the 
N.  Y.  East  Conference.  He  met  and  married  in  Brooklyn 
Miss  Margaret  McDonald,  who  founded  the  King's  Daugh- 
ters in  New  York.  This  is  an  interdenominational  order 
not  restricted  as  to  membership  to  any  church. 

William  McDonald  Bottome  was  educated  at  Wilbraham 
Academy,  and  a  graduate  of  Dickinson  College,  and  Union 
Theological  Seminary.  After  completing  his  studies  he 
met  Miss  Margaret  Latham  of  England.    He  went  to  Eng- 


166  ORIGIN    AND    HISTORY 

hind,  where  they  were  married,  and  after  a  year  of  study 
Mr.  Bottome  was  ordained  deacon  and  priest  in  the  Church 
of  England.  He  began  his  ministry,  in  Massingham,  Eng- 
land, and  coming  to  the  United  States,  associated  with 
Rev.  Henry  W.  Satterlee,  D.  D.,  of  Wappingers  Falls, 
New  York. 

Mr.  Bottome  was  elected  by  the  Vestry  of  Grace  Church 
as  rector  and  took  charge  in  Jamaica  April  1,  1893.  His 
ingenuous  mind  and  character,  and  attractive  social  quali- 
ties, made  him  welcome  to  the  hearts  and  homes  of  his 
people.  He  made  friends  quickly,  by  his  cheerful  spirit. 
Though  born  in  the  United  States,  he  had  acquired  traits 
of  culture,  manner  and  speech  which  bespeak  the  English 
gentleman.  These  could  not  excite  any  considerable 
prejudice  against  him  in  Grace  Church,  and  if  they  had 
done  so,  his  generous  nature  would  have  disarmed  it.  Mrs. 
Bottome,  his  wife,  was  a  lady  of  English  birth  and  train- 
ing, the  niece  of  Hon.  John  Bright,  the  foremost  champion 
in  his  day  of  the  rights  of  the  people,  and  at  one  time 
leader  of  the  Liberal  party  in  England.  Her  health  was 
frail,  and  therefore  she  was  not  so  well  known  by  the 
people  as  a  rector's  wife  is  supposed  to  become  by  virtue 
of  her  husband's  position.  They  had  a  young  family  of 
four  children,  three  daughters  and  a  son,  who  could  attract 
companions  in  the  homes  around  them. 

Grace  Church  was  not  in  a  flourishing  condition  when 
Mr.  Bottome  came  to  the  rectorship.  The  congregation 
had  been  greatly  depleted  by  death  during  the  two  previous 
rectorships. 

Under  the  incidental  supplies  of  clergymen,  the  services 
were  of  a  plain  and  uninspiring  sort,  the  musical  part  in- 
dilTerent  and  dull,  and  Mr.  Bottome  undertook  to  revive 


OF   GRACE    CHURCH  167 

their  spirit  and  change  their  musical  character.  He  pro- 
posed and  carried  through  the  inauguration  of  a  choir  of 
men  and  boys.  This  was  indeed  an  innovation  that  would 
excite  discussion  and  dissent.  It  conflicted  with  century 
honored  traditions  in  Jamaica,  and  it  required  both  con- 
fidence and  persuasiveness  in  the  rector  to  make  it  success- 
ful. But  Mr.  Bottome  was  loyally  sustained  by  the 
Vestrymen  and  many  others  in  the  congregation.  He  had 
chosen  a  choir  leader  and  organist  in  Mr.  Frank  E.  Hop- 
kins, who  could  bring  a  fine  musical  taste  and  good  ability 
as  an  organist  to  the  endeavor. 

After  several  months  Mr.  Hopkins  had  trained  a  number 
of  boys  so  well  as  to  present  them  to  the  service  of  the 
Church.  The  choir  was  fairly  installed,  the  people  pleased 
with  the  idea  and  with  the  music,  which  seemed  to  trans- 
form the  service  into  an  eflfective  motive  and  help  to 
worship.  The  history  of  the  choir  from  that  time  has 
varied  somewhat  in  eifectiveness,  but  twice,  in  terms  of 
six  or  eight  years,  Mr.  Hopkins  has  had  charge  of  it,  and 
improved  it,  and  produced  the  regular  and  special  services 
in  a  churchly  way,  and  special  rehearsals  of  the  composi- 
tions of  great  masters  which  have  filled  the  Church.  An- 
other effect  has  been,  indirectly,  to  lead  to  a  great  improve- 
ment in  the  choirs  and  the  character  of  the  music  in  other 
congregations  in  Jamaica. 

There  was  another  institution  of  Christian  charity  which 
the  whole  township  of  Jamaica  had  greatly  needed,  a  well 
regulated  hospital.  With  the  familiarity  which  years  had 
given  to  Mr.  Bottome  in  England,  with  this  way  of  show- 
ing mercy  and  helpfulness  to  our  fellow  man,  Mr.  Bottome 
co-operated  earnestly  with  the  efforts  made  by  some  of  his 
congregation,  especially  Miss  Mary  R.  Gale,  and  other 
women  of  Jamaica,  to  establish  in  its  humble  beginnings, 


168  ORIGIN    AND    HISTORY 

in  a  small  house  on  Fulton  Street  near  Grand  Street,  the 
now  well  known  Jamaica  Hospital.  This  came,  soon  after 
his  departure,  to  possess  buildings  upon  which  rest  no 
debts,  and  now  has  a  large  staff  of  physicians  and  nurses, 
and  equipments,  on  New  York  Avenue.  It  can  accommo- 
date numerous  patients,  and  is  almost  always  full,  drawing 
them  from  the  largely  increased  population  of  the  villages 
of  the  whole  township  and  the  wards  of  Queensborough 
in  the  City  of  New  York. 

Mr.  Bottome  enlisted  the  sympathy  and  contributions  of 
his  parish  in  this  great  and  beneficent  enterprise,  and  was 
always  a  welcome  visitor  at  the  bedside  of  the  sick. 

The  minutes  of  the  Vestry  record  the  death  of  Mr. 
Richard  King  on  March  21st,  1892,  for  twenty  years  a 
member  of  the  Vestry  of  Grace  Church.  The  resolutions 
passed  on  March  28  express  profound  sorrow  and  sym- 
pathy with  his  son  and  other  relatives.  They  signify  their 
sense  ''of  personal  and  official  loss  in  the  death  of  him 
whose  genial  companionship  made  his  presence  ever  wel- 
come, and  whose  interest  in  this  parish,  manifested  in 
various  ways  to  the  end  of  his  life,  commanded  their 
respect  and  was  worthy  of  their  emulation." 

Mr.  King  was  the  son  of  John  Alsop  King,  and  had  been, 
like  his  ancestors,  a  generous  contributor  to  the  Church, 
and  in  many  ways  promoted  its  work  and  influence  at 
home  and  in  the  diocese. 

The  revival  of  the  musical  spirit  of  the  services  was  but 
the  beginning  of  other  great  changes  proposed  by  the  new 
rector  to  the  Vestry.  He  saw  that  there  must  be  a  new 
organ,  and  urged  this  upon  their  attention.  The  symbolic 
aids  to  the  ritual  of  Holy  Communion  were  almost  wholly 
wanting  in  this  distinctive  part  of  the  Church  Liturgy. 


OF   GRACE    CHURCH  169 

However  the  plainness  of  forms  and  appointments  might 
satisfy  the  older  communicants,  it  was  quite  out  of  keep- 
ing with  worship  that  prevailed  in  the  Churches  in  this  and 
neighboring  dioceses.  It  was  desired  that  the  communion 
table  should  have  more  of  the  symbolic  character  of  an 
altar  of  the  Church's  faith. 

An  altar  guild  was  needed,  and  a  few  of  those  in  sym- 
pathy with  such  work  were  enlisted  to  make  new  vest- 
ments and  attend  to  the  preparations  of  the  sanctuary  for 
the  services.  A  super-altar  was  desired,  and  the  introduc- 
tion of  Church  ornaments  proposed.  The  former  was 
given  by  the  Grace  Circle  of  the  Kings  Daughters,  and  a 
solid  brass  cross  put  upon  it,  the  gift  of  Mr.  John  M.  Crane. 
Two  brass  vases  were  also  given  by  Grace  Circle  of  the 
Kings  Daughters,  silk  veils  and  purses  and  a  set  of  altar 
linen,  with  a  fair  linen  cloth,  were  presented,  the  work  of 
Miss  Virginia  Cogswell  and  Mrs.  John  S.  Denton. 

The  vestments  for  the  Church  seasons  were  also  in- 
creased, to  take  the  place  of  the  prevailing  red  cloth  which 
covered  the  altar.  This  was  done  by  several  women  of  the 
parish.  The  organ  chamber  was  extended,  and  repairs  put 
upon  the  organ,  and  the  purchase  of  a  new  one  deferred. 
The  salary  of  the  organist  was  raised  from  $400  to  $600, 
and  that  of  the  Sexton  to  $300. 

The  movement  in  the  diocese  to  increase  the  Episcopal 
fund  was  aided  by  Grace  Church.  The  sum  of  $500  was 
voted  by  the  Vestry  and  raised  by  subscription  for  this 
purpose. 

A  large  piano  was  bought  of  Mr.  Hopkins  for  the  use  of 
the  choir  and  Sunday  School,  at  $225. 

The  death  of  Mr.  Francis  Lott,  March  6,  1896,  a  member 
of  the  Vestry,  for  ten  years,  brought  to  their  remembrance 


170  ORIGIN    AND    HISTORY 

and  emulation  his  love  and  loyalty  to  the  Church.  Charles 
C.  Napier  was  at  the  next  election  chosen  to  fill  his  place 
in  the  Vestry. 

The  resolutions  of  the  Vestry  in  accepting  Mr.  Bottome's 
resignation  expressed  unfeigned  sorrow. 

"By  his  kindly  ministrations  he  has  won  our  hearts;  by 
his  faithful  service  as  a  preacher  of  the  Word  and  as  Shep- 
herd of  the  Sheep  committed  to  his  care,  he  has  gathered 
into  the  fold  many  souls  who  shall  be  as  seals  to  his  minis- 
try and  stars  in  the  crown  of  his  rejoicing,  and  has  laid 
broad  and  deep  foundations  for  the  future  upbuilding  and 
development  of  Christ's  Kingdom  among  us." 

The  pastoral  relations  formed  in  these  three  years  are 
still  cherished  remembrances  to  the  older  families  of  the 
congregation.  He  was  equally  acceptable  to  the  fellow- 
ship of  clerical  brethren,  and  the  companionship  of  the 
Men's  Club  of  Jamaica,  where  he  was  frequently  found. 
His  fondness  for  athletic  exercise  was  a  bond  of  comrade- 
ship to  others,  and  it  seemed  to  have  been  a  happy  conjunc- 
tion of  pastor  and  people  when  he  came  to  reside  in  this 
community. 

There  were,  however,  no  considerable  developments  of 
parochial  strength  or  increase  of  numbers,  partly  for  the 
reason  that  the  mortality  among  the  families  of  the  congre- 
gation was  greater  than  the  accession  of  new  families  in 
Jamaica,  and  the  apathy  of  business  and  social  life  con- 
tinued. The  question  of  health  for  some  members  of  the 
rector's  family  led  to  a  serious  consideration  of  whether  to 
maintain  the  relation  of  rector  and  people.  The  decision 
was  made  to  take  his  family  back  to  England,  and  many 
regrets  for  personal  loss  in  their  departure  followed  them 
to  the  home  land. 


OF   GRACE    CHURCH  171 

The  names  of  their  children  were  Wilmot,  Mary,  Phyllis, 
and  George. 

During  Mr.  Bottome's  ministry  at  Grace  Church  there 
were  62  baptisms  and  47  presented  for  confirmation,  and 
fifteen  marriages. 

The  record  of  deaths  and  burials  is  not  exclusively  that 
of  members  of  the  parish,  but  was  comparatively  a  long 
and  saddening  one  to  the  rector. 

Mr.  Bottome  continued  his  ministry  incidentally  in 
several  churches  in  England  until  he  settled  in  the  vicarage 
of  All  Saints  Church,  Swanscombe,  England,  where  a  long 
and  successful  pastorate  was  ended  at  Easter,  1913. 

At  the  close  of  his  ministry  in  Swanscombe,  Mr.  Bottome 
established  a  home  for  his  family  at  Bromley,  Kent,  Eng- 
land. In  the  last  days  of  this  removal  he  was  seized  with 
bronchial  pneumonia  which  in  less  than  a  week's  illness 
ended  his  service  on  earth,  in  May,  1913,  that  he  might 
"enter  into  the  joy  of  his  Lord." 

"Lord,  vouchsafe  him  light  and  rest,  peace  and  refresh- 
ment, joy  and  consolation  in  Paradise,  in  the  companion- 
ship of  Saints,  in  the  presence  of  Christ,  in  the  ample  folds 
of  Thy  great  love!" 


172 


ORIGIN    AND    HISTORY 


CHAPTER  XIX. 


Grace  Churchyard. 

There  is  a  light  of  hope  and  a  blessing"  of  peace  which 
hovers  over  a  churchyard,  where  for  hundreds  of  years 
those  who  have  died  in  the  Lord  have  been  gathered  to  the 
silence  of  bodies  turned  to  dust  and  ashes,  that  await  the 
resurrection  of  the  dead.  If  there  is  one  spot  sacred  to  the 
memory  of  past  years  it  is  the  churchyard  where  genera- 
tions have  been  laid  to  rest. 

It  may  not  be  encouragement  so  much  as  resignation 
that  is  fostered  in  the  hearts  of  worshippers  by  tombstones 


OF   GRACE    CHURCH  173 

that  mark  the  graves  of  departed  relatives.  The  Christian 
religion  calls  for  all  the  energies  that  can  be  used  in  this 
life  for  its  betterment  in  ourselves  and  others.  So  fre- 
quent association  with  those  scenes  where  are  buried  our 
brightest  hopes  and  heart's  best  love,  may  paralyze  the 
active  powers,  and  rob  us  of  the  good  that  this  world  has 
still  for  us  to  reap  and  enjoy. 

But  there  is  a  worthy  and  fondly  cherished  sentiment 
that  associates  so  intimately  our  religious  activities  with 
the  reminders  of  those  "who  rest  from  their  labors."  The 
churchyard  becomes  a  dear  and  treasured  spot  even  if  we 
but  glance  toward  it,  as  we  enter  the  house  of  worship  or 
kneel  at  the  altar  of  our  faith. 

Grace  Church  was  founded  so  early  in  the  life  of  Jamaica 
that  the  faithful  ones  buried  beneath  the  shadow  of  its 
walls  and  steeple  now  have  their  graves  in  the  midst  of  the 
busy  life  of  the  city  that  has  grown  up  around  it. 

The  extent  of  this  churchyard  was  at  first  only  half  an 
acre.  It  has  been  enlarged  at  different  times  by  gifts  of 
the  members  of  the  King  family,  and  by  purchases  by  the 
Vestry  of  lots  on  Grove  street  on  the  north  and  on  John 
street  on  the  west.  It  now  forms  a  quadrilateral  enclosing 
a  large  city  block,  from  Grove  to  Fulton  streets,  except  on 
the  southeast  corner  occupied  by  the  property  of  Doctor 
Hull.  The  graveyard  encircles  the  Church  and  the  new 
Parish  Memorial  House  occupies  one-half  of  the  north  side 
on  Grove  street,  a  permanent  safeguard  from  the  intrusion 
of  houses  or  stores  into  its  hallowed  precincts.  The 
churchyard  was  originally  given  by  the  widow  of  Colonel 
Heathcote,  the  receiver-general  of  New  York.  This  was 
thirty-five  years  after  the  organization  of  the  Church;  dur- 
ing this  period  a  village  graveyard,  on  what  is  now  Pros- 


174  ORIGIN    AND    HISTORY 

pect  street,  had  been  used  by  the  inhabitants  of  Jamaica, 
in  which  even  now  some  Church  families  have  their  burial. 

Most  of  the  elegies  that  have  been  written  on  church- 
yards can  well  describe  the  characters  and  conditions  and 
resting  places  of  those  who  lie  so  peacefully  around  Grace 
Church.  Some  graves  have  been  hidden  under  the  church 
itself.  The  sanctuary  built  in  1902  covered  others,  to 
which  an  iron  gateway  leads,  and  nothing  can  disturb 
them,  while  they  are  still  accessible.  Others  lie  in  tombs 
that  are  now  sealed  up  and  covered  with  green  sod. 

At  the  front  entrance  one  sees  the  brownstones  of  the 
earliest  graves.  Some  have  lost  their  inscriptions  through 
the  years,  and  some  have  disappeared  altogether.  On  the 
right,  near  the  east  corner  of  the  church,  is  the  humble 
sandstone  relic  of  Richard  Betts,  Jr.,  who  died  in  1749, 
and  of  Mary  his  wife  in  1759.  Near  it  the  large  brown 
slab,  to  the  memory  of  Captain  William  Dickson,  a  native 
of  Glasgow  and  commander  of  four  companies  of  volun- 
teers of  New  York.  English  soldiers  erected  this  tribute 
to  their  captain,  who  died  in  1781.  Near  this  lies  the 
memorial  of  Paulus  Moulin  Clijtendaele,  Baron  of  Brelton, 
who  died  March  27,  1796.  There  are  numerous  graves  of 
officers  and  privates  of  the  colonial  army.  One  can  trace 
six  generations  of  the  Betts  family,  before  and  through 
the  period  of  the  Revolution  and  down  to  the  present  time. 

On  the  left  are  many  graves  of  the  King  family,  begin- 
ning with  Rufus  King,  the  most  noted  of  them  all,  and 
followed  by  Governor  John  A.  King,  and  his  wife,  and 
descendants.  The  group  of  graves  of  General  Van  Rens- 
selaer and  his  family,  the  Van  Cortlands,  and  Duers,  bring 
back  remembrances  of  early  New  York,  and  prominent 
actors  in  its  history. 


OF   GRACE    CHURCH  175 

This  part  of  the  churchyard  contains  pathetic  inscrip- 
tions on  its  stones,  such  as  are  found  elsewhere  in  old 
graveyards,  but  all  are  dignified  in  their  expressions  of 
sorrow. 

One  reads  under  the  name  of  a  wife  who  departed  this 
life  ''ye  13  January,  1767,  aged  26  years": 

O,  Cruel  Death,  why  wast  thou  so  severe 
To  rob  me  of  a  tender  Wife  so  dear? 

Another  who  had  been  ''the  wife  of  one  husband  50  1/2 
years"  received  this  epitaph: 

At  length  ye  Christian's  race  is  run : 
A  glorius  prize  she  now  has  won : 
With  ye  angelic  host  she's  fixed, 
In  joys  Celestial  and  unmixed. 

An  appreciative  visitor  to  another  early  grave  in  his 
account  of  Grace  Church  published  in  the  Brooklyn  Eagle 
April  18,  1908,  says  of  it: 

"The  eternal  struggle  during  the  ages  to  substitute  the 
sense  of  grief  at  the  loss  of  one  dear,  by  the  gladness  of 
the  thought  of  the  life  of  bliss  enjoyed  by  the  free  spirit, 
is  voiced  in  this  bit  of  poetry  on  the  monument  of  John 
Rowland: 

Dear  as  thou  wast,  and  still  is  dear, 

We  will  not  weep  for  thee. 
One  thought  shall  check  the  starting  tear, 

It  is  that  thou  art  free. 
And  then  shall  this  consoling  power 

The  tears  of  love  restrain. 
Oh,  who  that  saw  thy  parting  hour 

Could  wish  thee  here  again. 

At  the  east  side  of  the  church  are  plots  of  families  of  the 
second  one  hundred  years  of  the  life  of  Grace  Church. 
Among  these  is  the  marble  monument  to  the  Rev.  William 


176  ORIGIN    AND    HISTORY 

Lupton  Johnson,  D.  D.,  and  his  wife  and  children,  whose 
graves  extended  to  the  fence,  and  marble  slabs  to  Rev. 
George  H.  Sayres,  D.  D.,  with  several  children.  These 
are  the  only  two  rectors  of  Grace  Church  buried  in  this 
churchyard.  But  a  number  of  clergymen  have  here  made 
their  last  resting  places.  Among  these  are  Rev.  Sabura 
S.  Stocking,  D.  D.,  whose  stately  monument,  a  high 
granite  cross,  with  its  elaborate  Latin  inscription,  stands 
near  the  north  boundary;  Rev.  Beverley  R.  Betts,  under 
massive  granite  stone,  formed  and  polished  like  a  sar- 
cophagus; Rev.  Lewis  E.  A.  Eigenbrodt,  L.  L.  D.,  and  his 
son.  Rev.  William  Ernest  Eigenbrodt,  D.  D.,  each  with  the 
same  distinguished  memorials.  Of  later  interments  are 
the  stone  crosses  over  the  remains  of  Rev.  Canon  James 
A.  Smith,  John  M.  Crane  and  Harriet  Seabury  Crane. 

The  later  monuments  have  far  excelled  in  graceful  form 
or  costly  material  the  earlier  ones.  The  stones  over  the 
graves  of  the  King  family  of  several  generations  are  plain 
white  marble  slabs;  so  are  those  of  the  Cogswells,  Dentons, 
Duers  and  Wellings,  Oldfields,  Betts  and  Ogdens. 

There  are  other  well-known  names,  borne  by  Wardens 
or  Vestrymen  of  the  Church  or  prominent  citizens  of 
Jamaica  and  Long  Island — Van  Brunt,  Skidmore,  Van 
Nostrand,  Higbie,  Thatford,  Napier,  Seabury,  Carpenter, 
Kissam,  Grossman,  Damon,  Pettit,  Stoothotf,  Robinson, 
Meynen,  Remsen,  Canfield,  Jackson,  Seabury,  Brenton, 
Clowes,  Snediker,  Hunter,  Brooks,  Butler,  Hoyt,  Ander- 
son, Ichenbrock,  Carpenter,  Clark,  Sayre,  Simonson  and 
Troup. 

Some  of  these  have  splendid  monuments.  The  whole 
aspect  of  the  churchyard  is  that  of  the  living  of  departed 
ones  in  the  memories  of  those  who  survive  them. 


Two   A'lEWS   OF   THE    SANCTUARY 
AND    ChUUCHVARD    OF 

Grace   Church,    Jamaica. 


(Photograph  by   Dexter  Walker.) 


OF   GRACE    CHURCH  177 

There  was  no  more  beautiful  gift  ever  bestowed  upon 
Grace  Church  than  that  which  is  recorded  in  the  parch- 
ment deed  of  Martha  Heathecote,  for  this  "  God's  acre." 
Here  lie  the  patriots  of  three  wars,  who  died  for  their 
nation's  defence  and  perpetuation.  Here  rest  the  valiant 
soldiers  of  the  Church.  Here  every  human  relationship 
has  been  hallowed  by  loving  gifts  upon  graves  covered  by 
flowers,  wet  with  tears,  gilded  with  the  rays  of  the  sun  of 
righteousness,  and  lightened  by  the  hope  of  life  eternal. 

The  frosts  of  Christmas  blight  the  fresh  garlands  spread 
upon  these  mounds,  the  warm  airs  of  Easter  morn  are 
fragrant  with  the  multitude  of  flowers  spread  over  them 
in  the  early  twilight.  The  flags  of  our  Union  wave  over 
the  graves  of  soldiers  in  the  hot  rays  of  July  suns,  the 
ivies  creep  all  the  year  over  mouldering  forms  below,  the 
roses  shed  their  petals  all  through  the  summer  days  upon 
the  grass. 

And  yet,  beyond  the  tall  iron  fence  which  encloses  this 
sacred  spot,  the  streams  of  human  activities  are  flowing 
swiftly  by,  reminding  us  that  the  solemn  words  of  the 
burial  service  which  is  always  said  in  this  churchyard,  are 
too  sadly  true : 

"In  the  midst  of  life  we  are  in  death. 

Of  whom  may  we  seek  for  succor,  but  of  thee, 

O  Lord,  who  for  our  sins  art  justly  displeased?" 


178  ORIGIN    AND    HISTORY 


CHAPTER    XX. 

Early  Gifts  to  the  Church  of  England  in  Jamaica — Later 

Gifts   to   Grace    Church — Donations   to   Grace 

Church  Funds. 

On  the  1 7th  of  April,  1 704,  representations  made  to  the 
Society  as  to  the  needs  of  their  missions  led  to  a  resolution 
that  a  sum  not  exceeding  £15  be  allowed  the  Church  in 
Jamaica  for  vestments  and  for  vessels  for  the  communion 
table.  As  the  Lord  Bishop  of  London  reported,  in  1 7o6, 
that  Queen  Anne  had  given  a  large  Bible,  Common  Prayer 
Books,  and  Book  of  Homilies,  cloths  for  pulpit  and  com- 
munion table,  silver  chalices  and  patens,  for  the  churches 
in  Hempstead  and  Jamaica,  the  source  of  the  donation 
made  by  the  Society  in  1704  is  thus,  according  to  tradition, 
from  the  royal  bounty. 

The  chalice  and  paten  that  Grace  Church  still  treasures 
and  has  in  use  are  among  the  oldest  relics  of  ecclesiastical 
use  in  America.  Around  the  chalice  is  a  Latin  inscription 
"Ex  dono  Societatis  promovendo  Evangelis  in  partis 
transmarinis  1704  A.  D." 

It  is  10  1/2  inches  high,  5  1/2  inches  in  diameter  at  the 
brim,  and  holds  three  pints.  It  bears  the  mark  of  sterling 
silver,  and  is  the  oldest  sacramental  cup  in  Long  Island- 
This  chalice  was  once  broken  by  the  fall  of  a  stovepipe 
upon  it  during  service,  which  of  necessity  was  discon- 
tinued. The  break  was  so  neatly  mended  by  a  silversmith 
that  it  cannot  now  be  discovered.  It  was  used  in  the  con- 
secration of  the  Cathedral  at  Garden  City,  with  the  silver 


OF   GRACE    CHURCH  179 

communion  vessels  of  St.  George's,  Hempstead,  which 
were  of  later  make. 

The  title  page  of  the  Prayer  Book  presented  by  Lord 
Cornbury  in  1703  for  the  reading  desk,  reads  thus: 

"The  Book  of  Common  Prayer  and  Administration  of  the 
Sacraments"  &c. 

with  the  inscription  written  in  spaces  on  each  side  of  the 
printed  words: 

''Given  to  the  Church  of  Jamaica  by  his  Excellencie 
Ed  ^^  Viscount  Cornbury  Oct  1703." 

This  prayer  book  is  in  the  possession  of  Mr.  William 
Perry,  of  Newtown,  L.  I. 

The  Royal  Arms,  which  were  first  set  up  in  the  churches 
of  England  by  order  of  Queen  Elizabeth  in  1550,  was  also 
given  to  Grace  Church  by  Queen  Anne,  with  an  altar  of 
oak.  The  Royal  Arms  is  still  a  well  preserved  painting, 
inclosed  in  a  black  frame,  but  the  altar  was  destroyed  in 
the  burning  of  Grace  Church  in  i860.  No  description  of 
this  altar  can  be  found,  except  that  it  was  marked  with  a 
plate  indicating  its  gift  by  the  Society  and  was  of  graceful 
pattern.  The  Ten  Commandments  first  ordered  to  be 
placed  in  the  churches  by  Queen  Elizabeth,  in  1564,  were 
probably  not  part  of  the  chancel  appointments  of  Grace 
Church  till  the  new  church  was  erected,  1822,  during  the 
rectorship  of  Rev.  Gilbert  Sayres.  There  was  also  in  con- 
nection with  the  Decalogue  tablets  one  containing  the 
Creed  and  the  Lord's  Prayer,  in  this  and  the  following 
church  building  erected  in  1861. 

In  1761  a  handsome  silver  collection  plate  was  given  by 
Mr.  John  Troup,  to  which  all  other  collection  plates  given 
in  later  years  conformed  in  pattern  and  value. 


180  ORIGIN    AND    HISTORY 

There  is  no  list  of  subscriptions  for  building  the  first 
Episcopal  church  in  Jamaica  in  1734. 

There  was  a  sale  of  pews  and  lots  on  Feb.  23,  1737, 
with  the  following  conditions: 

I.  Each  pew  lot  to  be  struck  off  to  the  highest  bidder. 

II.  Every  purchaser  to  build  (his  pew)  in  such  season 
that  the  work  be  not  hindered. 

III.  Every  purchaser  to  make  use  of  his  pew,  or  the 
Church  shall  let  it  out  to  another. 

IV.  On  the  purchaser  leaving  the  parish  the  pew  or  lot 
is  to  revert  to  the  Church. 

Purchasers'  Names. 

No-                                              s.  d.       No.                                              s.         d. 

t.  Daniel   Whitehead    ...20.  i7.  Edw.  Willett  to  Samuel 

2.  Robert  Howell    16.  Smelt    10. 

3.  George  Reynolds   ....12.  18.  Benjamin   Taylor    ....    9. 

4.  William  Steed   12.  19.  Sarah  Payer,  gratis. 

5  Rector  for  time  being.  20.  Benjamin  Thorne  ....14. 

6.  Anthony  Waters    12.  21.  Samuel  Clowes    14.       6 

7.  Richard  Belts  Jr 11.  6       22.  Thomas  Colgan    21.       6 

8.  Richard  Betts 16.  10       23.  William  Welling  . 18. 

9.  Samuel  Clowes    16.  10       24.  Timothy   Bridges    ....15. 

10.  Samuel  Clowes  Jr.   ...  11.       6  Guy  Young   14. 

11.  Gabriel  LufF 12.  26.  Isaac   Van   Hook 11. 

12.  John  Willett    12.  27.  William    Wiggins    ....12.       6 

13.  Anidrew  Clarke    12.  28.  Daniel  Sawyer    14.       6 

14.  Robert  Freeman 29.  Sias   Wiggins    IS. 

15.  Commofl  Pew    30.  Benjamin  Whitehead  ..20. 

16.  Henry    Wright    10. 

Six  persons  in  above  list  defaulted  payment. 


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181 


The  Subscriptions  towards  the   Rebuilding  of  Grace 
Church,  March  28,  1821: 


Cornelius   I.    Bogert    $l50 

Mary   Codwise    5 

L.  E.  A.   Eigenbrodt    300 

Nancie  Gracie 500 

Mrs  Harvey 20 

Mrs.    Hyler    20 

Rufus  Kiflg 500 

John  A.  King    200 

B.  T.  Kissam 100 

Timothy   Nostrand    300 

Nathaniel   Prime    50 

Prime,  Ward  &  Sands    100 

Abiathar  Rhodes 55 

Lawrence    Roe    100 


Silas  Roe    $550 

Joseph    Roe    40 

Gilbert    Roe    3  5 

Benjamin   Rowland    50 

John  Skidmore   50 

Gilbert  H.  Sayres    25 

Joseph  Thatford 10 

An«  Vandervoort    25 

John   Van   Nostrand    25 

Adrian  Van  Sinderen    20 

Samuel  Ward  Sr 50 

Hannah  Wickham    25 

William  Puntifle    10 


Besides  the  above  there  were  the  following  persons  who 
were  pewholders  from  July  3,  1823,  to  1825: 


Mrs.  Brewer 
John   B.   Codwise 
Lawrence    Denton 
Cornelius  Duryea 
Miss  Dawson 
Mrs.    Dyson 
Mrs.   Forbes 
Samuel  Greenoak 
Smith    Hicks 
John  Hoagland 
Mrs.    Hicks 
Mrs.  Jackso*! 
Joh«  T.  Jones 
James    Brooks 
Benjamin   Kissam 
Henry  Kneeland 
Mr.  Lyde 
Charles  McNeill 
William  McKay 
Andrew  Napier 
Frederick  Polhemus 
William  Puntine 


John  B.   Roe 
Lawrence  Roe 
Ida  Rowland 
James  Smith 
Jeremiah    Simonson 
Mrs.    Bowe 
Joseph    Sealy 
John    Sproull 
John  Thatford 
John  Titus 
Mrs.  Tapp 

Thomas  S.  Townsend 
Mrs.  Troup 
Jeremia  Valentine 
James  Valentine  Sr. 
James  Valentine  Jr. 
Samuel  Ward  Jr. 
Nancy  Welling 
Samuel    Welling 
John   Welling 
Mrs.    Brasher 


182 


ORIGIN    AND    HISTORY 


Subscriptions  for  Rebuilding  a  Church  of  Free  Brown 
Stone,  May  8,  1861. 


John  A.    King    $1,000 

William  J.  Cogswell    250 

Dr.   George  H.  Kissam    ....  250 

He.Jidrick   Brinckerhoff    ....  250 

John   C.   S,toothoff    100 

George    Nostrand    tOO 

Thomas  Welling 100 

John   L.    Denton    250 

Jeremiah    Valentine    125 

John  Skidmore    100 

David  W.   Skidmore    100 

Peggy  and  Anfl   Kissam    .  .  .  100 

Daniel  Smith 100 

J.  J.  Brenton  and  Sons   ....  75 

Ann    Ely 50 

James  T.   Lewis    25 

Misses  Valentine 100 

James    Ashby    25 

George   N.   Codwise    50 

James  Weeden    25 

Mrs.  Catherine  Napier    ....  50 

Gifts  from  1849  to  1894. 


Andrew  Napier   $       50 

Martha   and   Devine   Hewlett  100 

Mrs.  Adela  Bell *5 

Sarah  Maria  Van  Wyck  ....  100 

Martha  Kingsberry    5 

Airs.  M.  G.  Johnson    100 

Alexander    Hagner     50 

Miss   Harriet  Cornwell    ....  10 

John   A.    King,  Jr 100 

Cornelius  Duryea 100 

William  Betts,   L.L.D 250 

William  J.  Sayres 50 

Nathaniel  Vanderverg SO 

Robert  Ray SO 

Miss  Elizabeth  Gelston   ....  25 

Benjamin  Curtis   10 

Mrs.  Job  Jackson    SO 

Charles   R.   King    25 

Joseph  H.  Skillman 100 

14,455 


GIFTS. 

Silver  communion  tankard 

Silver   collection   plate    

Baptismal   font    

Eagle  lectern,  memorial  to  Mary 
King,   1873    

Silver  a-nd  gold  alms  basin,  me- 
morial to  Catherine  L.  Eigenbrodt 

Saint  Cecilia  window,  memorial 
to  Theodora  Brento«  Gardiner.. 

Altar  book   rest    

Silver   paten    

Silver  and  gold  baptismal  bowl  .... 

Altar  cross    


DONATORS. 

Ladies  of  the  parish 1849 

Miss   Rachel  Valentine    1861 

Mrs.   Sarah   Rogers   King    ....1862 

Miss   Cornelia   King    1878 

1881 

1885 

Mrs.    Adelia   Gale    1888 

Miss   Cornelia    King    1892 

Miss  Cornelia  King 1892 

Mrs.  Harriet  Seabury  Crane   .  .1894 


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183 


Gifts  for  the  Building  of  the  New  Sanctuary,  1901-1902. 
(From  Treasurer's  Report) 


Mary     Rhinelander     King 

Cash    $ 

1.00 

memorial    to    John    A. 

$7,857.58 

F.    T.    Martin 

5.00 

a^d  Mary  C.  King  .  .  .  . 

Mrs.  F.  T.  Martin 

5.00 

Mr.  P.  K.  Meynen 

50.00 

C.    G.    Smyth 

5.00 

Mr.    Frank    D.    Denton    .  . 

50.00 

Mr.  F.  J.  Cogswell 

25.00 

Miss  J.  Gertrude  Ward.  . 

10.00 

Mr.  Alden  S.  Crane 

25.00 

Mrs.   Helen   L.   Hicks.  .  .  . 

50.00 

Mr.  Charles  M.  Hunt.  .  .  . 

S.OO 

Mrs.    Emily    H.    Betts.  .  .  . 

25.00 

Mrs.    Annie    S.    Hunt.... 

5.00 

Mrs.  Geo.  W.  Damon.  .  .  . 

15.00 

Mr.  F.  D.  Andreu 

10.00 

Miss   Virginia  Cogswell.. 

4.00 

Rev.    H.    0.    Ladd .  .  . 

25.00 

Miss  Eirene  Ladd 

3.00 

Mr.    Lovatt    

5.00 

Miss  C.  O.  Aymar 

5.00 

Mr.  C.  Blondel 

15.00 

Mr.  J.  A.  Lodge 

10.00 

Mrs.   Goodman    

10.00 

Mrs.  W.  D.  Llewellyn.  .  .  . 

26.64 

Mr.    John    S.    Denton.  .  .  . 

200.00 

Mr.  W.  D.  Llewellyn 

73.36 

Mr.  H.  A.  Johnson 

40.00 

Cash 

10.00 

Mr.    B.   J.   Breciton 

250.00 

Cash    

5.00 

Mr.    C.    C.    Napier 

150.00 

Miss  Gould    

2.00 

Mrs.  Julia  E.   Napier.  .  .  . 

50.00 

R.  E.  Pofld 

5.00 

Mr.   and  Mrs.   Charles  M. 

Mrs.  R.  E.  Pond 

5.00 

Kirby     

25.00 

C.    W.    Burtis 

10.00 

Mr.   W.   S.   Cogswell,   me- 

Mrs. Johnson    

10.00 
10.00 

morial    

Mr.   John   Alvin    Young.  . 

250.00 

Miss  C.  C.  Lyon 

250.00 

Cash    

3.00 

For  Decorating  Walls. 

Mrs.  Emily  H.   Betts    $      20.00 

Mrs.  S.  S.  Stocking  50.00 

Gifts  for  Memorials  in  New  Chancel  and  Sanctuary. 

Mr.  John  M.  Crane,  organ,  memorial  to  Harriet  Seabury 

Crane   $2,500.00 

Mrs.  N.  M.  and  Charles  Belden,  carved  seats,  memorial 

to  Rev.  S.  S.  Stocking  258.50 

Mrs.  S.  S.  Stocking,  chancel  window,  memorial  to  Rev. 
S.  S.  Stocking   

Mr.    C.   C.   Napier,   communion   rail,   memorial   to   his 

parents,  brothers  and  sisters  360.50 

Mr.  James  L.,  John  S.,  and  George  Denton,  pulpit, 
memorial   to   ancestors 

Mr.  Theodore  Johnson,  marble  altar  and  steps,  memor- 
ial to  Rev.  William  Lupton  Johnson,  D.  D., 400.00 


184  ORIGIN    AND    HISTORY 

William  D.  Wood,  M.  D.,  memorial  processional  cross. 

Mrs.  Jane  Fleury  and  Charles  J.  Stewart,  two  candle- 
sticks, memorial  to  James  Fleury  Stewart 

Mrs.  Jane  H.  Horan,  two  altar  vases 

Col.  William  S.  and  Mr.  Francis  J.  Cogswell,  carved 
oak  reredos,  memorial  to  William  J.  and  Alma 
Sterling    Cogswell 

Rev.  Charles  M.  Belden,  rector's  prayer  desk,  memorial 
Rev.  S.  S.  Stocking 

Altar  Guild,  credence  table 

Miss  Hester  J.  Boyd,  red  vestments  for  altar  and  pulpit. 

Mrs.  Hortense  Campbell  Lee.  violet  vestments  for  altar 
and  pulpit 

Miss  J.  Eirene  Ladd  and  Miss  H.  Virginia  Cogswell, 
two  brass  vases  for  the  altar 

Mrs.  George  C.  Damon,  a  fair  linen  cloth  for  the  altar. 

The  Altar  Guild,  a  red  dossal  and  a  linen  surplice  for  the 
crucifix 

Later  Gifts  from  1896  to  1910. 

Altar  Linen,  from  members  of  the  Altar  Guild,  .  . .  .1896  to  1902 
Private  Communion  Service,  given  by  Mr.  and  Mrs.  Philip 

K.  Meynen,   • 1899 

Mrs.    R.    C.    McCormick,    St.    Paul    window,    memorial    to 

Richard  C.  McCormick,   1903 

Mrs.   Mary  Shcaff  Glover  Mills,  portrait  of  Rev.  Thomas 

Colgan.  memorial  to  Mary  C.  J.  S.  Hoyt 1903 

Mr.  Michael  Pette,  Annunciation  window,  memorial  to  Lydia 

Euler  Pette,   1908 

Memorial  to  Mrs.  Anna  Duer  Breck,  rugs  for  vestry  room,  1908 
Mrs.  William  Unwin,  quartered  oak  settle  with  cushions, 

furniture   for   vestry    room,   memorial   to    Mr.   William 

Unwin,   

Mr.  William  D.  Llewellyn,  silver  collection  plate 1910 

Mrs.   Mary  Wilcockson    Llewellyn,   silver  collection   plate, 

memorial  to  Mabel  Brenton  Skidmore,   1910 


OF   GRACE    CHURCH  185 

Donations  to  Grace  Church  Funds,  since  1867. 

DATE.  OBJECT.  AMOUNT. 

Walter  Nichols    1879  For  the  Sunday  School.  .$    300 

Estate  of  Keziah  Griffin 1885  Churchyard  and  poor  of 

parish    6,500 

"John    Napier    1868  Sunday  School 500 

"       "  Cornelia  Ki^g 1897  Woman's  Missionary  Ass'n       500 

1897  Poor  of  parish    500 

1897  Churchyard 1,000 

"  Sarah  Valentine   .  .  .  .1899  Churchyard 200 

"       "       "  "  ...  ,1899  Church    600 

—  John  A.  King  and  family.  .1896  Chimes    1,000 

Estate  of  Mary  McFarland.  .  .  .1897  Parish  house  fund 200 

Estate  of  John   Alsop   King.  .  .1867  Churchyard 1,000 

Heirs  of  John  Alsop  King.... 1873  Churchyard  sales  of  plots   3,723.51 
Estate  of  Ann  Augusta  Simon- 
son    1873  Churchyard 500 

Estate  of  J.    Bancroft    Davis.  .  1895  Churchyard 250 

"    Mary    E.    Rowland.  .  1899  Churchyard. 300 

"    Susan  Pettit 1901  Churchyard 1,000 

"    Caroline   King    ....  1901  Churchyard 1,000 

"        "    Rachel    Ann    Speed- 
ing     1901  Churchyard 50 

"        "    Deborah  J.   Rhodes.  1904  Churchyard 1,000 

"        "    James   Gore    King..  1909  Churchyard 100 

"        "    Jenny  Cook 1910  Churchyard 100 

"        "    Charles  C.  Napier.  .1910  Churchyard 400 

1910  Church  fund 600 

"        "    Mary    Rhinela>nder 

King    1910  Church   endowment    ....    3,000 

Trinity  Church,  New  York, 
proceeds  from  sale  of  lot 
68,    Trinity    Place,    specified 

use    1910  Church   endowment    ....38,052.57 

Trinity  Church,  balance  of  pro- 
ceeds from  sale  of  58  Reade 

Street    1910  9,771.84 

Unconditional  Gifts  to  Churchyard  Endowment  Fund. 

Estate  of  Josephine    Rowland.  I9l  1  Churchyard 400 

"        "    Foster    Hendrickson  Churchyard 250 

"        "    Benjamin  J.  Brenton  1912  Churchyard  endowment .  .    1,000 

"        "    Margaret  Thompson  1913  Churchyard 500 

Dr.    F.    Delafield $100  Mrs.    Beverley    Robinson    ....      25 

Mrs.  Horan    10  Mrs.  Mary  E.  Green   26 

J.  Augustus  Lodge 10  Mrs.  J.  W.  Smith   l50 

Fra^icis  J.  Cogswell    25  Mrs.  C.  L.  Underhill l50 

Mrs.  Susan  Johnson   100  Miss  E.  J.  Suydam 25 

Eliza   Suydam    25  

C.   E.  Butler   50  $846 


186  ORIGIN    AND    HISTORY 

Gifts  to  Churchyard  Endowment  Fund  with  covenanted 
conditions,  in  perpetuity,  1911. 

Mrs.    Alice   Davis    $2,000       Mr.    Denning    Duer 100 

Miss  Ellen  King 2,000       Airs.    Nora   King  Buckley.  ...  25 

Mrs.  James  Gore  King    ....    1,000       Mr.    Charles   King 25 

H.  Van  Rensselaer 1,000       Mrs.   A<ina  V.   R.  Duer 25 

Mrs.    Elizabeth   G.    Hardy    ..       800       Mrs.    Charles    King 25 

Mrs.   Elizabeth   F.    King    ....       400       Mrs.  Alice  Bayard  Edgar....  500 

Mrs.    J.    Bancroft    Davis....       250       Mrs.    Elizabeth    Fisher    King.  300 

Miss  Sarah  Grace  Duer 250       Mrs.   Frances  Kiflg  Duer ...  .  50 

Miss  Amy  H.   Duer 250       Mrs.   Rebecca  Gore  Davis.  .  .  250 

Miss  Isabella  C.   King 200       Mrs.  Elizabeth  Fisher  King.  .  300 

Mrs.    Eugene    Schuyler 160       Mrs.   Frances   K.   Ward 50 

Mrs.    Elizabeth    V.    R.    Ells-                    Mr.  John  Alsop   King 500 

worth 100 


OF   GRACE    CHURCH  187 


CHAPTER  XXI. 

Wardens  and  Vestrymen  of  Grace  Church,  Elected  Under 

the  Charter. 

Elected.  Died. 

Aymar,  Samuel  Swift,  1851                 1897 

Baker,  Byron  D.,   191 1 

Barden,    Edward,    1794 

Barker,  Dr.  Charles  H., 1877                 1893 

Belden,  Dr.  Clinton  A.,    1883                 1898 

Betts,   Richard,    1761 

Betts,  Thomas,    1761                 1776 

Betts,   Richard,    1808 

Betts,  William,  LL.  D., 1840 

Blondel,   Charles,    1894 

Braine,  Thomas,   1761 

Brenton,  James  J.,   1854 

Brenton,    Benjamin    J., 181 1                 1884 

Brinckerhoff,   Hendrick,    1842                 1865 

Brown,  Josiah,    1799                 1814 

Clarkson,  Levinus,  Capt.,   1795                 1812 

Codwise,  George,  Jr.,    1799                 1816 

Codwise,    George   Nelson,    1865                 1873 

Cogswell,  William  J.,    1842                 1885 

Cogswell,  William  S.,  Col., 1874 

Comes,  John,   1761                 1770 

Cornwell,  Daniel,    1825                 1842 

Cortelyou,  Peter,  Col.,    1808                 1820 

Crane,  John  M.,   1873                1904 

Crane,  Alden  S.,   1905 

Denton,    Lawrence,    1821                 1836 

Denton,  John   L.,    1830                 1870 

Denton,  James  L.,   1872 

Denton,  John  S.,  1874 

Depeyster,  James,    1788                1799 


188 


ORIGIN    AND    HISTORY 


Eigenbrudt,    L.   E.   A.,.. 
French,  James   B.,    .  .  .  . . 

Gracie,  W.  R.,  

Griswold,    Thomas,    .  . .  . 

Hagner,  Henry  I.,    

Hagner,  Alexander 

Hewlett,  John,  Sr 

Hewlett,  Isaac,    

Hicks,  George  A., 

Hinchman,   Thomas,    .  .  . 

Hinchman,   John 

Hicks,    Stephen,    

Hitchcock,    Daniel    M.,.. 

Hoogland,  John,    

Howell,   Robert,    

Johnson,   Martin    G.,    .  .  , 

Johnson,  Henry  N 

King,  John  Alsop 

King,    Richard,    

Kissam,  Daniel,  lawyer, 

Kissam,    Daniel,    

Kissam,  Dr.  Geo.  H.,  .  .  . 
Llewellyn,  William  D.,   , 

Lott,   Francis,    

Mackrel,  James,  Sr.,    .  .  . 
McNeill,  Charles,  Sr.,    .  , 

Martin,   James,    

Martin,  James  G.,  

Meynen,  George  K 

Meynen,  Philip  K 

Morrell,  James,   

Motley,  John,  Capt 

Napier,  Andrew,   

Napier,  John  B.,   

Napier,  Charles  C 

Nichols,    Walter,    

Nostrand,    Timothy.    .  .  . 

Nostrand,   George,    

Oborne,  Ernest  A., 


lected. 

Died. 

1817 

1828 

1904 

1840 

1873 

1806 

1808 

1842 

1849 

1 861 

1880 

1804 

1812 

1815 

1838 

1877 

1893 

1 761 

1782 

1793 

1805 

1810 

1820 

1815 

1810 

1851 

1764 

1776 

1867 

1893 

1836 

1867 

1872 

1892 

1793 

1812 

1803 

1848 

1849 

1865 

1902 

1886 

1896 

1793 

1812 

1798 

1825 

1798 

1 83 1 

1842 

1892 

1908 

1796 

1813 

1799 

1808 

1857 

1865 

1896 

1910 

1833 

1879 

1806 

183 1 

1842 

IQOQ 

OF   GRACE    CHURCH  189 

Elected.  Died. 

Oldfield,  Joseph,   1812 

Ogden,  Dr.  Jacob,    1761  1802 

Puntine,    William,    1798  1833 

Robinson,  Henry  B.,   1868  1874 

Rhodes,  Abiathar, 1813  1850 

Roe,  Joseph,  Captain,   1814  1829 

Roe,  Lawrence,   1816 

Roe,   Silas,    1816  1831 

Rowland,    David,    1802  1821 

Rowland,  Jonathan,   1826  1875 

Sale,  William  A., 1808  1856 

Sayres,  Gilbert  B., 1903 

Sayres,  William  J.,    1869 

Scholey,   William    1913 

Sealey,  Joseph,    1810  1831 

Sherlock,  William,   1761 

Skidmore,  John,    1804  1863 

Skillman,  Joseph  H.,   1867 

Skinner,  Abraham,   1793  1826 

Smith,  Samuel,  Jr., 1761 

Smith,  Christopher,    1788  1805 

Smith,    John    C, 1832  1859 

Smith,  Daniel,   i860  1865 

Smith,  William  Wood,   191 1 

Stoughtenberg,    Gilbert    B., 1912 

Stout,  William  C,  Captain, 1832 

Simonson,  Jeremiah 1824  1835 

Thatford,  Joseph,   1809  1827 

Thatford,  John,  Jr.,   1800  1833 

Titford,  Isaac,   1799 

Troup,  John, .  1761  1775 

Valentine,  Jeremiah,      1813  1850 

Valentine,  Jeremiah,  Jr., 1850  1875 

Valentine,  James,   1829  1865 

Valentine,  John,    183 1 

Valentine,  John  H.,   1842  1843 

Valentine,  Thomas,    1849  1872 

Vandeverg,  George,  1857  i860 

Vandeverg,   Nathaniel,    1866 


190  ORIGIN    AND    HISTORY 

Elected.  Died. 

Van   Nostrand,  Aaron,    1793  1822 

Van  Nostrand,  John  A.,   1803  1828 

Van  Nostrand,  John,   1820  1832 

Welling,  Thomas,  1793  181 1 

Welling-,   Samuel,    1799  1823 

Welling,   William,    1856  1867 

Whitehead,    Benjamin,    1761  1780 

Witherstine,  W.  C,   1914 

Wood,  Philip  M.,  M.  D., 1913 

Wood,  William  D.,  M.  D 1894  1903 

Woolley,  Samuel  T.,   1852 


Grace  Church  Interior,    upo. 
(Photograph  by   C.   C.    Napier.) 


V 

THE  RECTORSHIP  OF  HORATIO 

OLIVER  LADD,  A.  M.,  S.  T.  D. 

1896-1910 


OF   GRACE    CHURCH  193 


RECOLLECTIONS  OF  THE   RECTORSHIP  OF  THE 
AUTHOR— 1896-1910. 

Rev.  Horatio  Oliver  Ladd  was  elected  by  the  Vestry  to 
the  rectorship  of  Grace  Church,  while  rector  of  Trinity 
Church,  Fishkill,  N.  Y.,  July  20th,  1896.  The  members 
of  the  Vestry  were  Wardens  William  S.  Cogswell  and  John 
M.  Crane,  Vestrymen  John  S.  Denton  (secretary),  Samuel 
S.  Aymar  (treasurer),  Benjamin  J.  Brenton,  and  Messrs. 
George  K.  Meynen,  M.  D.,  Henry  M.  Johnson,  William 
D.  Wood,  M.  D.,  Charles  Blondel  and  Charles  C.  Napier. 

The  salary  named  in  the  resolution  was  $2,000,  with 
the  use  of  the  rectory  at  62  Clinton  Ave.  The  invitation 
to  the  rectorship  was  accepted,  and  after  the  summer 
weeks  had  passed,  during  which  the  Rev.  Canon  James 
H.  Smith  had  charge,  the  new  rector  met  all  the  communi- 
cants who  could  be  gathered,  and  officiated  for  them  on 
the  first  Sunday  in  October,  having  brought  his  family  to 
the  rectory  in  the  latter  part  of  September.  His  first  ser- 
mon was  from  I  Cor.,  viii,  1,  "Charity  edifieth,"  and  he 
took  for  the  type  of  his  ministry  to  this  parish  the  rector- 
ship of  the  Rev.  Thos.  Colgan,  and  his  words  shortly  after 
assuming  the  same  office:  "At  peace  with  the  sectaries 
around  us  I  shall  be  of  a  loving  charitable  demeanor  to 
every  persuasion." 

The  officials  of  Grace  Church  had  explained  the  two 
great  needs  of  the  parish  to  be  met  if  possible  by  the  new 
rector.  One  was  the  enlargement  of  the  sanctuary,  and 
the  other  the  erection  of  a  suitable  parish  house.    To  ac- 


194  ORIGIN    AND    HISTORY 

complish  these,  concernino^  which  there  were  conflicting 
opinions  as  to  which  was  the  most  urgent,  it  was  necessary 
to  gather  the  scattered  members,  to  revive  the  interests  of 
the  communicants  in  the  sacraments  and  worship,  and  to 
make  the  Sunday  School  a  better  representation  ,in  its 
membership  and  spirit,  of  the  real  but  latent  strength  of 
the  parish. 

There  had  been  in  the  two  previous  rectorships  a  great 
depletion  by  death,  removals,  and  neglect  of  worship. 
The  business  life  of  Jamaica  was  at  a  standstill.  There 
was  no  definite  record  to  be  found  of  the  communicants, 
so  many  had  disappeared  from  those  nominally  reported 
to  the  Convention.  There  were  sixty-two  families  onlhe 
parish  list,  which  was  manifestly  incomplete,  and  the 
Sunday  School,  six  months  without  a  rector  or  regular 
Superintendent,  could  rally  but  few  classes  or  pupils.  A 
new  superintendent,  Mr.  W.  D.  Llewellyn,  had  taken 
charge  and  was  likely  to  be  an  efficient  aid  to  the  recuper- 
ating of  the  strength  of  this  important  part  of  church 
nurture,  but  Mr.  Llewellyn  did  not  remain  as  Superintend- 
ent, to  gather  in  all  the  results  of  the  energetic  effort  he 
was  putting  forth  for  the  young. 

Cards  were  issued  to  be  filled  out  by  communicants 
present  and  receiving  communion.  Parishioners  were 
also  visited,  and  by  aid  of  personal  inquiries,  their  names 
were  tabulated.  An  exact  religious  census  of  the  town,  in 
which  other  Christian  organizations  co-operated,  brought 
remarkable  results.  About  eleven  hundred  persons  in 
Jamaica  were  recorded  as  associated  with  Grace  parish  in 
preference  to  any  other  Christian  organization.  Efforts 
were  made  towards  more  system  in  the  activities  of  the 
parish,  which  was  divided  into  districts,  and  those  who 
were  willing  assigned  to  their  respective  duties  to  care  for 


OF   GRACE    CHURCH  195 

the  various  interests  of  Grace  Church.    Guilds  one  after 
another  were  organized  for  those  of  different  ages. 

The  districting  of  the  parish  was  not  an  entirely  success- 
ful measure,  but  the  guilds  performed  an  important  and 
lasting  part  in  the  strengthening  of  the  parish. 

The  musical  part  of  the  services  was  already  inaugu- 
rated, and  the  work  of  the  choir  made  more  attractive  by 
special  musical  services,  as  well  as  in  the  usual  offices  of 
the  Church  liturgy. 

In  the  first  year  of  this  rectorship,  there  passed  from  the 
earthly  life  two  parishioners,  who  had  been  of  the  few 
oldest  and  most  active  members — Mr.  Samuel  Swift  Ay- 
mar,  vestryman  and  treasurer,  died  May  10,  1897,  and 
Miss  Cornelia  King  the  previous  year,  Dec,  1896. 

Two  more  useful  and  respected  persons  could  not  have 
been  taken  from  the  Church's  life  in  Jamaica.  The  Vestry, 
who  were  intimately  acquainted  with  Mr.  Aymar,  gave 
testimony  entered  upon  their  minutes.  May  14,  of  his 
high  worth  and  their  affectionate  regard: 

"On  the  removal  by  death  from  the  membership  and 
from  the  offices  of  vestryman  and  treasurer  of  this  Church, 
of  Samuel  S.  Aymar,  we  recognize  the  loss  of  one  whose 
life  gave  evidence  of  his  unfailing  devotion  to  the  inter- 
ests of  this  parish.  Always  a  Christian,  he  was  diligent, 
prompt,  and  upright  in  business  relations,  and  faithful  to 
his  many  trusts.  A  gentleman  in  the  kindness  and 
courtesy  of  his  dealings  with  those  whom  he  met,  he  was 
pure  in  heart  as  he  was  in  speech.  Charitable  in  spirit,  he 
was  a  friend  to  all.  A  communicant  of  the  Church  for 
nearly  fifty  years,  and  a  vestryman  for  nearly  thirty-five 
years,  by  the  constancy  of  his  faith  and  the  innocency  of 
his  life  he  has  left  an  example  worthy  of  emulation." 


196  ORIGIN    AND    HISTORY 

Miss  Cornelia  King  was  stricken  by  apoplexy  the  day 
preceding  the  first  Thanksgiving  Day  of  the  rector  with 
his  people,  and  lay  unconscious  till  her  death  a  week  after. 
She  was  the  eldest  daughter  of  Governor  King,  whose 
memory  she  venerated,  and  whose  virtues  she  continued 
in  her  life  in  the  Church  and  diocese.  Her  charities  were 
constant,  her  influence  positively  Christian,  her  spirit  lov- 
able, and  its  expression  forcible  and  rugged.  Her  leader- 
ship among  the  women  of  the  Church  and  diocese  was 
accepted  for  its  faith,  wisdom,  generosity  and  devotion  to 
the  Church,  while  her  station  in  society  gave  her  unques- 
tioned influence  in  the  larger  growth  of  its  charitable  in- 
stitutions and  missionary  work.  Bishop  Littlejohn  said  of 
her  in  his  convention  address: 

"As  President  of  the  Board  of  Associates  of  the  Church 
Charity  Foundation  and  President  of  the  Board  of  Man- 
agers of  St.  Phebe's  Mission  House,  she  labored  inces- 
santly to  increase  the  support  and  to  extend  the  usefulness 
of  both.  There  was  no  charity  or  mission  in  the  diocese 
that  did  not  command  her  sympathy,  and  when  needed 
her  active  help.  There  was  much  in  her  work,  her  life 
and  her  character  that  recalled  many  of  the  Godly  women 
who  ilgure  in  the  gospel  narratives  and  in  the  epistles  of 
St.  Paul.  She  was  called  from  us  at  a  ripe  old  age,  and 
after  a  brief  illness,  leaving  behind  a  blessed  memory  and 
carrying  with  her  the  love  and  veneration  of  all  who 
knew  her." 

A  few  months  before  this  rectorship  began  (in  1896), 
Rev.  Samuel  T.  Stocking  passed  away  at  the  advanced  age 
of  eighty-six  years.  He  finished  his  life  in  the  large  man- 
sion on  Clinton  Avenue  where  for  some  years  he  main- 
tained a  boys'  school  in  retirement  from  the  duties  of  a 
parish  priest  in  what  is  now  Massapequa,  Long  Island, 


OF   GRACE    CHURCH  197 

and  of  which  church  he  was  made  rector  emeritus.  He 
and  his  devoted  wife  were  prominent  members  of  Grace 
Church  parish,  and  kindly  remembered  by  many  pupils 
who  had  come  under  his  training  there,  and  in  St.  Mark's 
Hall,  a  school  which  he  established  in  1850,  in  West 
Orange,  adjoining  St.  Mark's  Church,  where  he  was  rector 
from  1851  to  1861.  To  the  last  he  was  a  staunch  defender 
of  the  faith,  order  and  worship  of  the  Church,  of  very 
positive  convictions  which  he  was  fond  of  discussing  with 
others,  who  were  able  to  defend  their  own.  Bishop  Little- 
john  said  of  him: 

''His  character,  like  his  bodily  frame,  was  solid,  well- 
proportioned  and  weighty.  It  implied  rather  than  ex- 
pressed decision  of  will  and  energy  in  action.  The  power 
to  deal  heavy  blows  and  to  lead  feebler  natures  was  evi- 
dently in  it,  but  this  power  was  by  the  innate  gentleness 
and  courtesy  of  his  disposition  subdued  into  a  silent  part- 
ner in  the  business  of  life. 

"Though  he  lived  well  on  towards  the  close  of  the  nine- 
teenth century,  his  habits  of  thought,  his  view  of  the  world 
about  him,  his  criticism  of  conduct  and  manners,  his  bear- 
ing in  society,  his  ideals  of  life  and  character,  his  theology 
and  style  of  preaching,  the  books  that  he  read,  the  authori- 
ties that  he  consulted,  his  pastorate  of  souls,  his  mode  of 
working  a  parish,  all  belonged  to  the  first  half  of  the  cen- 
tury. *  *  *  He  died  in  the  faith  and  fear  of  God's 
holy  name,  and  he  left  behind  him  the  memory  of  a  char- 
acter and  a  career  which  those  who  knew  him  best  will 
long  cherish  with  loving  interest." 

The  Rev.  Beverley  Robinson  Belts,  who  passed  the 
greater  part  of  his  life  in  Grace  parish,  entered  into  the 
rest  of  Paradise  on  Whitsunday,  May  21st,  1899,  in  his 


198  ORIGIN    AND    HISTORY 

72d  year.  He  was  born  in  Greenwich  Street,  New  York 
City,  the  son  of  Justice  VViUiam  Betts.  He  was  descended 
from  Lord  Stirling,  who  inherited  his  title  from  the  Scottish 
Earl  Stirling,  and  was  major-general  in  the  Army  of  the 
Revolution,  having  had  command  of  nearly  all  the  forces 
of  the  army  under  General  Washington.  His  mother  was 
a  Miss  Robinson,  granddaughter  of  Col.  William  Duer, 
and  her  grandmother  was  a  daughter  of  Lord  Stirling.  Mr. 
Betts'  ancestor,  Richard  Betts,  settled  in  Massachusetts 
Bay  Colony  in  1642.  Mr.  Betts  lived  on  a  large  ancestral 
estate  in  Jamaica,  called  Merriwood  in  late  years,  having 
married,  October  6,  1892,  Miss  Emily  Henrietta  Nisbett, 
the  daughter  of  an  English  clergyman.  Rev.  James  Nisbett. 

Rev.  Beverley  R.  Betts  was  a  clej;gyman  of  marked 
literary  tastes,  and  wrote  articles  for  various  church  re- 
views. He  had  means  to  gather  a  large  library,  of  special 
value  in  its  biography  and  genealogical  character.  He 
left  a  voluminous  genealogical  history  written  in  the 
clearest  script.  He  was  an  authority  also  in  heraldry.  He 
was  librarian  of  Columbia  University  for  fifteen  years. 

As  a  clergyman  he  was  self-denying,  devout,  and  dili- 
gent, occupying  the  rectorship  in  Woodsburgh,  Long 
Island,  live  years,  and  at  Maspeth  seventeen  years,  from 
which  he  resigned  in  1865,  and  came  to  the  old  homestead 
in  Jamaica,  where  he  lived  as  a  retired  minister  and"  an 
honored  member  of  Grace  Church  and  Parish.  Mr.  Betts 
was  devoted  to  his  father  during  years  of  his  afiliction,  and 
gave  a  beautiful  example  of  filial  piety  to  the  community. 
He  was  kind,  gentle,  loving,  always  seeking  peace  and 
was  truly  a  Christian  gentleman.  Reverend  Doctor 
Charles  Olmstead  and  Rev.  George  Houghton  assisted  the 
rector  in  the  funeral  services  at  Grace  Church. 


OF   GRACE    CHURCH  199 

Two  members  of  the  King  family  should  have  their  me- 
morial in  this  rectorship,  yet  they  for  many  years  were  not 
residents  of  Jamaica.  Hon.  John  Alsop  King  and  his 
daughter,  Miss  Mary  Rhinelander  King,  were  connected 
with  the  Church  of  All  Saints  in  Great  Neck,  L.  I.,  near 
which  was  their  home;  but  they  visited  Grace  Church 
statedly  at  Christmas  and  Easter  communions,  thus  re- 
newing their  associations  with  their  ancestors. 

Their  names  are  perpetually  linked  together  in  Grace 
Church,  through  the  memorial  sanctuary  erected  as  the 
gift  of  Miss  Mary  R.  King  to  the  glory  of  God  and  the 
loving  memory  of  her  parents. 

Hon.  John  A.  King,  the  grandson  of  Rufus  King,  was 
born  in  Jamaica  in  1817,  was  graduated  at  Harvard  in 
1835,  studied  law  and  was  admitted  to  the  bar,  and  for  a 
while  practised  law  in  New  York  City.  He  was  the 
Republican  Presidential  elector  in  1872  and  a  State  Senator 
in  1871-75.  He  was  the  President  of  the  New  York  His- 
torical Society,  a  member  of  the  St.  Nicholas  Society,  the 
Metropolitan  Museum  of  Art,  and  the  American  Museum 
of  Natural  History.  Senator  King,  as  he  was  called,  was 
a  generous  and  constant  supporter  of  Grace  Church,  and 
he  was  buried  in  Grace  Churchyard.  The  services,  held 
in  St.  Thomas'  Church,  New  York,  were  attended  by 
Bishops  Leonard  and  Worthington,  and  the  Rev.  Dr. 
George  Williamson  Smith,  President  of  Trinity  College. 
A  prayer  was  offered  by  his  rector,  Rev.  Kirkland  Huske, 
at  the  committal,  and  a  large  number  of  Mr.  King's  family, 
relatives  and  friends  in  attendance  in  the  churchyard  cast 
flowers  in  profusion  upon  the  grave  of  one  of  the  most 
distinguished  sons  of  Jamaica. 

Miss  Mary  Rhinelander  King  emulated  the  virtues  of 
her  beloved  Aunt  Cornelia,  through  whose  example  she 


200  ORIGIN    AND    HISTORY 

was  early  led  to  that  wide  and  tender  sympathy  which 
made  her  one  of  the  church's  constant  and  most  generous 
benefactors.  She  inherited  a  large  fortune,  which  was 
distributed  with  a  rare  sagacity;  a  gracious  readiness,  an 
unheralded  charity  characterized  her,  and  her  lovely  and 
far-reaching"  benevolence  extended  to  friends  and  strang- 
ers, to  educational  institutions  in  her  own  and  foreign  lands, 
to  hospitals  and  orphanages,  to  the  poor  and  distressed, 
and  to  the  farthest  limits  of  the  missionary  fields  of  the 
world.  Her  cheerful  spirit  refused  to  yield  to  many  pros- 
trations of  health,  and  in  her  last  wasting  sickness  of 
many  months,  she  made  one  of  the  most  remarkable  wills 
that  ever  devised  a  large  fortune.  Miss  Mary  King  was 
active  in  all  the  societies  of  the  diocese  in  which  women 
had  the  direction  and  a  liberal  supporter  as  well  as  wise 
manager  of  their  executive  affairs.  She  was  specially 
beloved  by  the  church  and  community  where  her  religious 
life  was  begun  and  stimulated  in  the  remarkable  famfly  to 
which  she  belonged. 

Among  her  benefactions  are  the  memorial  to  her  parents 
in  the  building  of  the  new  sanctuary,  vestry  and  choir  of 
Grace  Church  in  1901,  and  the  complete  furnishings  and 
surgical  appointments  of  the  operating  room  of  Jamaica 
hospital.  For  ten  or  twelve  years  the  archdeaconry  of 
Queens  and  Nassau  and  the  parish  committees  received 
her  hearty  support. 

The  tributes  of  her  former  rector.  Rev.  Doctor  Smith,  to 
both  her  father  and  herself  at  the  consecration  of  the  sanc- 
tuary may  well  express  our  gratitude  for  the  service  of  God 
manifested  in  such  lives. 

Mr.  Benjamin  J.  Brenton  was  a  lay  reader  in  Grace 
Church  for  nearly  fifty  years.    A  native  of  Jamaica,  he 


OF    GRACE    CHURCH  201 

belonged  to  a  family  who  had  been  staunch  churchmen 
and  supporters  of  Grace  Church  from  1835,  when  their 
ancestor  came  from  Rhode  Island  to  Long  Island.  Mr. 
Brenton  held  a  confidential  business  position  in  New  York 
all  his  life,  remaining  in  the  same  concern  until  he  was 
retired  a  few  months  before  his  decease.  He  also  assisted 
his  father  and  brother  in  the  conduct  of  the  Long  Island 
Democrat,  and  developed  literary  tastes  in  editorial  work. 
He  was  an  intelligent  reader  of  books,  and  a  guide,  for 
many  years,  to  others  who  were  associated  with  him  in 
the  Chautauqua  courses,  and  other  reading  circles.  Mr. 
Brenton  had  a  social  disposition  and  many  friends  in  the 
church  and  community.  His  hand  was  always  ready  to 
dispense  a  wise  charity  and  to  aid  in  church  activities  and 
improvements.  He  became  vestryman  in  succession  to 
his  brother,  waiting  many  years  for  his  opportunity,  and 
he  died  the  oldest  member  of  the  vestry,  v/here  he  had 
served  the  church  twenty-seven  years.  Mr.  Brenton  sent 
to  the  rector,  under  date  of  Dec.  12,  1904,  this  statement 
of  his  connection  with  the  establishing  of  missions  of 
Grace  Church,  at  Richmond  Hill  and  Queens,  which  are 
now  prosperous  churches: 

'i  have  no  exact  data  to  go  by  in  relation  to  the  estab- 
lishing of  our  mission  services  at  Richmond  Hill.  It  was 
in  1866  or  1867,  that  the  Rev.  Thomas  Cook,  first  assist- 
ant minister  to  Rev.  Doctor  Johnson,  and  afterward  for  a 
while  minister  in  charge  at  Grace  Church,  commenced 
services  at  Richmond  Hill.  They  were  first  held  in  the 
station  house  of  the  L.  I.  R.  R.  I  took  charge  in  alternating 
Sundays,  sometimes  Theodore  J.  Cogswell,  also  a  lay 
reader  of  Grace  Church,  took  my  place,  while  I  went  to 
help  along  the  Queens  mission,  which  Mr.  Cook  was  car- 
rying on  with  the  assistance  of  Mr.  Cogswell.    When  Mr. 


202  ORIGIN    AND    HISTORY 

Cook  was  appointed  to  the  charge  of  missions  in  Suffolk 
County,  I  was  left  nearly  two  years  in  sole  charge  of  Rich- 
mond Hill  mission,  whose  services  were  then  held  in  an 
upper  room  over  a  carpenter  shop.  The  room  was  fitted 
up  for  our  use  like  a  chapel.  In  1872  the  Rev.  George 
Williamson  Smith  was  called  to  Grace  Church,  and  he  with 
me  alternating  kept  up  the  services  until  they  were  strong 
enough  at  Richmond  Hill  to  set  up  for  themselves." 

Mr.  and  Mrs.  Brenton  reared  four  children,  two  of 
whom  survived  their  father,  Mrs.  MacDonald,  and  Rev. 
Cranston  Brenton,  professor  of  English  Literature  in 
Trinity  College,  a  distinguished  and  eloquent  preacher  of 
the  Diocese  of  Connecticut.  He  has  very  recently  been 
called  to  the  secretaryship  of  the  Education  Department 
of  Church  Missions  in  New  York.  His  father  died  after 
a  protracted  illness  in  his  home  in  Jamaica  in  1911. 

In  the  first  six  years  of  this  rectorship  there  were  five 
changes  in  the  leadership  of  the  choir:  Mr.  F.  E.  Hopkins 
was  succeeded  by  Mr.  Ernest  T.  Winchester.  After  him 
came  Mr.  N.  Kimberley  Ferris,  who  was  followed  by  Alger 
E.  Weeden  and  Henry  G.  Spiller  of  White  Plains.  There 
was  an  impetus  given  to  the  choir  by  each  of  these  musi- 
cians, and  the  great  musical  compositions  presented  on 
feast  days  and  at  special  seasons  of  Christmas  and  Easter- 
tide secured  a  remarkable  attendance  from  the  community, 
which  not  only  filled  the  church  but  sometimes  exceeded 
its  capacity.  This,  however,  was  an  annoyance  to  some 
of  the  conservative  members  of  the  Vestry  and  Church, 
who  were  rather  exclusive  in  their  ideas  of  the  proper  uses 
of  a  church  building. 

The  Altar  Guild  of  Grace  Church  was  organized  in  Nov., 
1897,  and  a  constitution  and  by-laws  adopted  as  a  perma- 


OF    GRACE    CHURCH  203 

nent  institution  of  the  Church,  The  rector  and  six  mem- 
bers were  present  at  the  first  meeting,  and  the  officers 
elected  were  Mrs.  Phihp  K.  Meynen,  directress,  Miss  Vir- 
ginia Cogswell,  sub-directress.  Miss  Annie  K.  Cooke, 
treasurer.  Miss  Elizabeth  Brenton,  secretary.  All  Saints' 
Day  was  adopted  as  their  anniversary  day  for  a  Corporate 
Communion  service,  and  regular  monthly  meetings  were 
held.  The  following  year,  in  July,  1898,  Mrs.  Meynen 
resigned,  and  Miss  Cogswell  was  elected  directress,  which 
office  she  held  for  this  whole  rectorship,  and  continued 
into  that  of  Rev.  Mr.  Homans.  The  care  of  the  altar 
linen,  vestry  room,  altar  hangings,  decorations  and  fur- 
nishing of  needed  articles  and  appointments  devolved  on 
this  very  important  guild.  An  appropriation  was  annually 
made  for  their  use  by  the  Vestry,  and  many  private  gifts 
secured  by  the  memloers  for  the  enlargement  and  beauti- 
fying and  perfecting  of  altar  service,,  and  an  orderly  and 
reverent  celebration  of  the  Holy  Communion.  All  the 
saints  days  and  greater  festivals  of  the  Church  were  main- 
tained by  the  members  of  the  guild  with  other  communi- 
cants. Among  the  associate  members  who  became  liberal 
contributors  to  the  work  were  Mrs.  Sarah  S.  Stocking, 
Mrs.  Martin  S.  Rapelyea  and  Mrs.  Philip  K.  Meynen. 

During  the  first  five  years  some  of  the  most  active,  con- 
stant and  efficient  members  of  the  guild  were  Miss  Eirene 
Ladd,  Mrs.  F.  T.  Martin,  sub-directress,  Miss  Josephine 
Stehlin,  and  Mrs.  Theodore  R.  White.  Miss  Ladd  con- 
tinued an  indefatigable  member  through  the  whole  rector- 
ship. Miss  Elizabeth  Brenton  became  till  her  last  illness 
the  efficient  and  zealous  secretary  of  the  Guild. 

One  of  the  most  important  efforts  of  this  guild  was  to 
get  stated  gifts  of  flowers  through  the  year,  memorial  of 
departed  communicants  and  friends.    Mr.  C.  C.  Napier, 


204  ORIGIN    AND    HISTORY 

Mrs.  Beverley  Betts,  Mrs.  S.  S.  Stocking,  Miss  Nesbitt, 
Mrs.  Andreu,  and  several  others  were  the  first  regular  con- 
tributors in  this  way,  under  the  direction  of  the  guild,  to 
the  services  of  the  church,  and  a  handsome  white  altar 
vestment,  a  pulpit  hanging,  a  litany  desk  and  a  private 
communion  service  for  the  use  of  the  rector  in  his  visita- 
tion of  the  sick  were  gifts,  the  products  of  their  handiwork 
or  incited  by  the  early  efforts  of  the  members  of  the  Altar 
Guild. 

The  St.  Cornelia  Flower  Guild  was  organized  on  the 
17th  of  June,  1897,  with  14  members.  It  was  named  in 
memory  of  Miss  Cornelia  King,  a  lifelong  member  of 
Grace  Church  and  a  conspicuous  friend  and  promoter  of 
charities  in  the  diocese.  It  was  intended  to  interest  very 
young  girls  in  charitable  work,  and  train  them  for  larger 
activities  of  this  kind.  The  special  purpose  at  first  of  this 
guild  was  to  send  flowers  to  the  teneroent  districts  in  the 
crowded  city,  taking  a  little  sunshine  to  the  lives  of  the 
people  there.  The  members  met  and  made  flowers  into 
bouquets  which  were  sent  to  the  Fruit  and  Flower  Mission 
connected  with  St.  Michael's  Church,  Brooklyn.  From 
its  first  organization  till  Oct.  28th,  the  first  year,  1043 
bouquets  were  sent. 

Then  a  Christmas  box  full  of  clothing,  candy  and  toys 
was  sent  to  Tennessee  and  Virginia,  to  schools  for  colored 
and  white  children.  During  Lent  a  box  was  made  up  of 
night-dresses,  scrap-books  and  bedding  for  the  little  pa- 
tients of  St.  Giles  the  Cripple,  Brooklyn.  For  several 
years  such  work  was  continued,  and  programs  of  music 
and  recitations  and  talks  carried  out  for  the  interest  and 
instruction  of  the  workers  and  older  people  of  the  parish. 
The  membership  increased  to  thirty-five  or  forty,  and  the 
members  became  active  in  the  older  guilds.    The  officers 


OF    GRACE    CHURCH  205 

in  charge  were  Miss  Florence  Detheridge,  the  Misses  Simon- 
son,  and  other  members  of  the  Kings  Daughters.  Misses 
Edna  N.  Baker,  Ethalinda  Jackson,  Florence  and  Frances 
Andreu,  Miss  Lillian  Smyth,  and  Anna  Margaret  and 
Isabel  Morris  were  some  of  its  most  active  members. 

The  Sunday  School  had  at  this  time  two  efficient  officers 
in  Albert  B.  Purchase,  secretary,  and  Clarence  A.  Purchase, 
librarian.  The  former  was  an  active  member  of  those 
organizations  which  looked  towards  a  larger  influence  of 
the  Church,  and  continued  a  valuable  help  in  its  extension 
for  several  years,  until,  broken  in  health,  he  removed  to 
Arizona  with  a  young  wife,  only  to  return  a  few  years 
after  to  die  in  Jamaica,  his  native  town.  He  was  a  lawyer 
by  profession  and  a  progressive  and  earnest  communicant 
and  citizen. 

The  assistance  of  Mr.  Roeliffe  H.  Brooks,  who  was 
appointed  Oct.,  1897,  as  lay  reader  and  superintendent  of 
the  Sunday  School,  and  a  visitor  representing  the  rector 
in  the  homes  of  the  people,  contributed  largely  to  the  re- 
vived activities  and  guild  work.  Mr.  Brooks  was  a  stu- 
dent in  Columbia  University,  and  gave  part  of  his  time  to 
these  ministrations.  He  undertook,  at  the  rector's  request, 
the  organization  of  the  Parish  Sunday  School  Guild,  having 
the  interests  of  the  Sunday  School  as  a  special  care,  while 
also  in  charge  of  the  Cathedral  mission  at  Dunton.  This 
guild  was  organized  in  and  held  its  meetings  at  the  home 
of  Miss  Hester  Boyd,  who  became  for  several  years  its 
recognized  leader,  assisted  by  committees  of  young 
women,  and  young  men  also,  who  provided  entertain- 
ments of  a  literary  and  historical  character,  with  tableaux 
and  short  plays,  followed  by  refreshments.  The  Christ- 
mas and  Easter  festivals  took  on  a  new  life  and  popularity 
under  their  management,  and  also  the  annual  excursions 


206  ORIGIN    AND    HISTORY 

of  the  scholars  and  members  of  the  parish.  The  school 
tilled  to  its  entire  capacity  the  school  building  in  the  third 
year  of  this  rectorship.  Mr.  Brooks  continued  for  several 
years  to  assist  the  rector.  After  taking  a  full  course  of 
study  and  graduating  from  Columbia  University  and  the 
General  Theological  Seminary,  he  became  a  popular  as- 
sistant at  the  Church  of  the  Messiah  in  Brooklyn,  and  after 
his  marriage  was  elected  to  St.  Paul's  Church,  Albany, 
where  he  is  still  a  loved  and  successful  rector,  with  a  large 
and  increasing  influence,  especially  among  men. 

The  Sunday  School  Guild  to  which  he  was  devoted  in  its 
first  and  most  difficult  years,  became  in  the  course  of  this 
rectorship  the  Grace  Parish  Social  Guild,  which,  with 
nearly  one  hundred  members,  grew  to  be  the  most  import- 
ant guild  for  all  the  social  and  material  growth  of  Grace 
Church,  with  a  systematic  organization,  and  a  responsible 
official  board. 

Mr.  Brooks  also  reorganized  the  Boys'  Club  of  Grace 
Church,  in  March,  1900.  This  he  conducted  for  several 
years,  awakening  the  interest  and  enthusiasm  of  the  boys, 
who  were  wisely  led  by  him  in  their  athletic  sports  and 
assisted  in  their  literary  and  musical  entertainments. 

The  rector  had  instituted  during  the  first  year  a  parish 
paper,  Grace  Church  Chimes.  Assisted  at  first  by  the 
Vestry  in  the  expense  of  its  publication,  it  was  afterwards 
mainly  supported  by  village  advertisements.  The  Sun- 
day School  Guild  undertook  for  two  years  the  cost  of 
printing  and  the  distribution  of  the  Chimes,  which  was 
edited  and  conducted  by  the  rector.  Afterwards  the  entire 
responsibility  of  this  paper  returned  to  the  rector,  who, 
being  assisted  by  Misses  Eirene  Ladd  and  H.  V.  Cogswell, 
published  it  till  the  close  of  the  rectorship  in  1909,  and 


OF    GRACE    CHURCH  207 

made  it  self-supporting  through  subscriptions  and  adver- 
tisements. The  Chimes  was  published  monthly  ten  times 
a  year,  and  made  when  bound  a  large  quarto  volume. 

The  Chimes  was  a  valuable  instrumentality  of  this 
rectorship,  and  continued  to  its  end.  The  rector  was 
aided  in  its  publication  by  the  secretaries  of  the  guilds,  who 
contributed  their  annual  reports,  and  among  the  special 
contributors  was  Miss  Phebe  Hagner,  whose  papers  on 
past  events  in  the  parish,  the  Ladies'  Missionary  Society 
and  the  Sunday  School  preserved  valuable  material  for 
this  history  of  Grace  Church.  Miss  Elizabeth  Brenton,  a 
woman  of  fine  literary  taste,  sent  interesting  reports  of  the 
Altar  Guild  work.  The  rector  furnished  the  principal 
part  of  each  issue,  preserving  the  current  history  of  the 
parish  life,  with  special  sermons  and  addresses  affecting  its 
spiritual  and  material  activities. 

By  January  1,  1899,  a  Directory  of  Grace  Parish  was 
completed  and  published  by  the  rector  in  the  Chimes,  and 
afterwards  as  a  separate  manual  for  free  distribution. 

The  communicants  had  increased  so  as  to  number  31 5. 
Besides  these  there  were  names  of  100  other  single  persons 
or  heads  of  families  connected  with  the  parish.  There 
were  65  pew-holders,  some  of  whom  had  but  one  or  two 
sittings.  The  Sunday  School  numbered  19  officers  and 
teachers  and  175  scholars. 

But  a  year  after,  Jan.,  1900,  the  number  of  communi- 
cants whose  names  had  been  thoroughly  revised  and  iden- 
tified was  320.  The  families  represented  in  the  congrega- 
tion numbered  325.  The  number  of  baptized  persons  in 
the  parish  was  660,  and  the  Sunday  School  had  a  total  of 
163  members.  The  income  for  all  objects  of  Church 
expenditures,  including  charities,  was  $6,095.80.  Included 


208  ORIGIN    AND    HISTORY 

in  the  work  and  influence  of  this  long  established  church, 
whose  parish  limits  were  so  largely  extended  in  its  original 
foundation,  were  now  eight  Episcopal  churches  and  mis- 
sions holding  regular  services,  gathered  and  organized 
from  Grace  Parish  since  1872. 

On  the  last  Sunday  in  the  century  the  rector  of  Grace 
Church  said  to  his  congregation: 

"The  century  closes  on  this  its  last  Sunday  with  aRopeful 
vista  opening  up  before  this  Church  as  before  our  nation 
and  the  world.  From  the  efforts  and  failures  of  the  past 
we  have  learned  some  wisdom  concerning  what  shall  pro- 
mote the  prosperity  of  this  Church  of  Christ.  It  is  not 
only  staunch  churchmanship,  but  self-reliance;  not  only 
steadiness  but  activity;  not  only  piety  but  progress;  not 
only  conservatism  but  liberality;  not  only  steadfastness 
and  patience,  but  faith  and  enterprise  which  laying  hold  of 
opportunity,  put  forth  the  requisite  energy  to  gain  the  con- 
fidence of  men  and  the  blessing  of  God. 

''We  have  come  to  a  new  century  of  human  achieve- 
ment, the  fitting  and  necessary  preparation  for  which  by 
the  Church  must  be  material  enlargement  and  intellectual 
and  spiritual  energies  commensurate  with  the  greater 
capacities  of  mankind  and  the  development  of  aggressive 
forces  for  the  conflict  of  sin  with  ri.9:heousness." 


'&' 


Grace  Chapter  of  the  Daughters  of  the  King,  organized 
Nov.  20,  1899,  with  seventeen  members,  the  Junior 
Daughters  of  the  King,  and  the  Crown  Circle  of  the  Kings 
Daughters,  were,  during  the  whole  of  this  rectorship, 
guilds  which  were  specially  active  and  faithful  to  their 
principles.  The  first  two  were  organized  in  Grace  Church 
to  promote  personal  devotion  and  give  aid  to  the  rector  in 
influencing  strangers  and  others  to  attend  the  Church  ser- 


OF    GRACE    CHURCH  209 

vices.  They  held  meetings  for  prayer  and  instruction  in 
Christian  living,  and  put  their  Christian  motives  to  test  in 
aiding  charitable  work.  The  Juniors  were  under  the  di- 
rection of  some  of  the  older  guild,  and  were  brought  to 
their  sense  of  responsibility  and  duty  in  keeping  their  vows 
of  baptism,  and  confirmation.  Thus  those  who  were 
sponsors  could  draw  their  spiritual  charges  to  the  avowal 
of  their  own  faith  and  obedience  to  the  word  of  God. 
Under  a  few  faithful  ones  who  kept  their  membership  in 
view  in  all  their  Church  relations,  these  guilds  flourished. 
Their  influence  extended  to  other  activities.  They  were 
tried  and  faithful  and  successful  teachers  in  the  Sunday 
School.  Miss  Port,  Mrs.  Martin,  Misses  Augusta  and 
Sadie  Simonson,  Miss  Comellas,  Miss  Gertrude  Gale,  Miss 
Aline  and  Miss  Bessie  Oborne,  Miss  Pauline  Cogswell,  and 
Miss  Amy  Wiltsie  were  most  efficient  workers. 

The  Circle  of  the  Kings  Daughters,  choosing  especially 
charitable  work,  sent  many  boxes  of  clothing  to  hospitals 
and  schools  in  the  mountain  districts  of  the  South  and 
West.  They  became  finally  the  branch  of  the  Jamaica 
Hospital  Relief  Society,  and  worked  specially  for  its  sup- 
port. This  Circle  included  in  its  membership  many  mar- 
ried women  of  the  active  families  of  the  parish,  and  was 
efficient  in  good  works. 

These  guilds  were  specially  helpful  in  training  workers 
for  the  nurture  of  the  young  in  the  Sunday  School.  The 
Primary  Department  of  the  Sunday  School  was  a  field  for 
such  important  Christian  work.  Its  most  flourishing 
periods  were  under  those  who,  like  Miss  Hester  Boyd,  Miss 
Augusta  Simonson,  and  Miss  Gertrude  Gale,  were  among 
the  most  prominent  in  the  activities  of  the  Daughters  of 
the  King,  and  the  Kings  Daughters,  while  the  Intermediate 
Department  was  directed  by  the  older  married  women, 


210  ORIGIN    AND    HISTORY 

Mrs.  Lilian  Ladd  Church,  Mrs.  Philip  Meynen,  and  Mrs. 
Wm.  J.  Ballard. 

In  the  years  immediately  following  the  beginning  of  the 
twentieth  century,  the  Parish  Social  Guild  was  an  evolu- 
tion from  the  Parish  Sunday  School  Guild,  which  organ- 
ization had  a  two-fold  purpose,  business  and  social.  The 
business  part  was  devoted  to  the  building  up  of  the  Sun- 
day School,  the  publishing  of  a  Church  paper,  the  further- 
ance of  the  Parish  House  movement,  and  other  Church 
work.  The  social  part  was  furnished  by  the  meetings 
which  were  held  twice  each  month.  The  members  came 
together  at  these  times  to  transact  the  business  of  the  guild, 
after  which  an  entertainment  of  music  and  recitations  and 
light  refreshments  was  given.  Any  member  or  teacher  of 
the  school  might  become  an  active  member  of  the  guild, 
while  all  others  interested  in  the  work  could  become  asso- 
ciate members.  The  guild  in  a  few  months  had  36  mem- 
bers, of  whom  26  were  active  and  ten  were  associates. 

Gradually  the  other  people  were  drawn  to  the  meetings 
and  membership.  The  entertainments  became  more  elab- 
orate, historic  tableaux,  in  which  young  and  old  joined, 
amateur  plays,  physical  exercises  by  classes  from  the  public 
schools,  dramatic  readings  and  pantomimes,  occasional  ad- 
dresses with  illustrations  by  pictures  or  acting,  songs  by 
musical  unions  and  charades  interested  young  and  old, 
while,  in  the  hour  given  to  refreshments,  the  social  spirit 
was  cultivated,  and  strangers  an3  newcomers  into  the 
parish  were  made  acquainted  with  older  parishioners. 

The  canvassing  of  the  parish  was  the  duty  of  one  of  the 
committees  that  proposed  new  members;  the  conduct  of 
Christmas  and  Easter  festivals  and  of  raising  of  funds  for 
the  furnishing  of  a  parish  house,  and  the  entertaining  o? 


OF    GRACE    CHURCH  211 

archdeaconry  and  other  diocesan  meetings,  came  to  be  the 
province  of  a  guild  numbering  nearly  one  hundred  mem- 
bers, and  directed  by  the  most  intelligent  and  active  women 
and  a  few  men  co-operating  with  them.  It  would  be  un- 
generous to  individualize  when  so  many  were  thus  actively 
employed  as  presidents,  but  two  or  three  churchwomen 
were  year  after  year  employed  in  superintending  and  ap- 
pointing committees  and  directing  the  multiplied  activities 
of  this  most  useful  guild,  which  became  the  leading  factor 
of  social  growth  and  unity  in  the  parish. 

All  would  ascribe  its  success  in  large  measure  to  the 
efforts  of  the  earlier  presidents,  Miss  Hester  Boyd,  Mrs. 
Kate  P.  Blanchard,  Mrs.  Philip  Meynen  and  Mrs.  George 
Meynen,  and  the  secretaries.  Miss  Florence  Detheridge 
and  Mrs.  John  Higgins,  and  Mrs.  George  Morris,  Miss 
Catherine  Aymar,  the  Misses  Oborne  and  Simonson,  and 
Miss  Port  of  the  Normal  School. 

Mrs.  Dr.  Belden  and  Mrs.  Wm.  C.  Baker  opened  their 
spacious  houses  to  musical  entertainments  of  the  guild, 
where  refreshments  were  served,  and  sums  of  money  col- 
lected to  buy  a  piano  for  the  future  Parish  House,  which 
was  loaned  and  used  by  the  Sunday  School  for  many  years. 

An  opportunity  for  Grace  Church  to  co-operate  with 
other  churches  in  Jamaica  and  surrounding  villages,  in  a 
work  of  Christian  humanity  and  patriotism  in  the  summer 
of  1898,  brought  together  their  active  workers  in  caring 
for  the  sick  and  wounded  soldiers  transported  from  Cuba 
in  the  Spanish-American  war.  The  Jamaica  Hospital 
Relief  Society  was  organized  to  relieve  the  hospital  au- 
thorities from  the  great  care  and  expense  involved  in  such 
a  humane  work.  On  Long  Island  were  located  two  great 
camps  of  United  States  soldiers  of  this  war,  Camp  Black 


212  ORIGIN    AND    HISTORY 

at  Hempstead,  for  the  concentration  and  instruction  of 
volunteer  regiments  and  recruits  from  the  Eastern  states, 
and  Camp  Wycoff  at  Montauk,  to  receive  the  sick  and 
wounded  brought  back  from  the  West  India  Islands  and 
malarial  districts  of  the  South.  There  were  at  times 
10,000  to  20,000  soldiers  in  each  camp.  A  great  military 
hospital  camp  was  inaugurated  in  a  few  weeks  at  Mon- 
tauk Point,  where  steamboats  and  transports  landed 
direct  from  Cuba  the  fever  stricken  and  wounded  soldiers. 

Thousands  lay  in  long  rows  of  hospital  tents,  sick  and 
dying  and  exposed  to  infection  from  innumerable  flies  and 
insects,  that  filled  the  hot  tents.  The  water  was  also  a 
detriment  to  health  or  recovery.  These  soldiers  died  by 
scores  and  hundreds  every  day,  and  the  burying  ground 
opened  on  the  Point — swept  by  the  Atlantic  breezes — was 
rapidly  dotted  with  wooden  headboards. 

There  was  a  call  to  distribute  these  invalid  and  dying 
soldiers  into  the  hospitals  in  the  seaboard  cities  along  the 
Long  Island  Sound,  and  in  New  York  and  New  Jersey. 

The  Jamaica  Hospital  Board  surrendered  temporarily 
their  new  building  on  New  York  Avenue  and  facilities  for 
nursing  to  the  Jamaica  Hospital  Relief  Society,  which  men 
and  women  of  all  the  religious  societies  in  town  joined, 
contributing  to  its  funds.  They  also  offered  and  gave  their 
personal  services  to  the  Society  to  nurse  and  care  for 
thirty-four  patients  first  brought  from  Camp  Wycoff,  and 
subsequently  to  another  installment  which  filled  the  Hos- 
pital to  its  utmost  capacity. 

The  officers  of  the  Jamaica  Hospital  Relief  Society  were 
president,  Rev.  H.  O.  Ladd;  secretary,  Richard  W. 
Rhoades;  treasurer,  Stanley  Jordan;  vice-presidents,  Mrs. 
Clinton  A.  Belden,  Mrs.  W.  E.  Everitt,  Mrs.  Lewis  L.  Fos- 


OF    GRACE    CHURCH  213 

dick,  Mrs.  Edwin  Richmond,  Mrs.  Feodor  Bernhardi,  Mrs. 
T.  J.  Fiynn,  Mrs.  T.  W.  Lewis,  Mrs.  Franz  Hartig.  Execu- 
tive Committee,  chairman,  J.  Browne,  Jr.,  Mrs.  Manning 
Smith,  M.  D.,  Mrs.  W.  E.  Everitt,  Mrs.  L.  L.  Fosdick,  Mrs. 
C.  A.  Belden.  Committee  on  Volunteer  Aid,  Mrs.  Man- 
ning Smith,  M  D.,  Mrs.  Philip  H.  Remsen.  Committee  on 
Sustenance  and  Clothing,  Mrs.  Charles  H.  Harris,  Mrs.  R. 
Purchase,  Miss  Maude  Ryder,  Miss  Carey,  Mrs.  F.  E. 
Detheridge. 

Miss  Gale,  the  president  of  the  Hospital,  Mrs.  Harris  and 
Mrs.  Remsen  of  the  Trustees  and  the  whole  medical  staff 
directed  by  Dr.  Geo.  K.  Meynen,  the  Chief  Surgeon,  gave 
unwearied  effort,  and  there  was  a  gratifying  harmony  be- 
tween the  management  and  voluntary  helpers.  Mr.  J, 
Browne,  assisted  by  the  firemen  of  Jamaica,  attended 
daily  to  the  arrangements  for  supplies,  transfers  and  night 
watching.  Rev.  Dr.  Ladd  superintended  and  effected  the 
transportation  from  Camp  Wycoff,  and  the  co-operation 
with  the  medical  authorities  there. 

When  the  hospital  seemed  full,  one  Sunday  evening, 
twenty-five  additional  patients  arrived,  and  were  disposed 
of,  severely  testing  the  skill  and  patience  of  those  in 
charge.  The  citizens  of  Jamaica  and  Richmond  Hill,  and 
Hollis  and  Queens  contributed  liberally  with  supplies,  and 
the  churches  made  offerings,  which  were  increased  by 
private  gifts  of  individuals. 

Some  of  these  soldiers  were  very  sick,  others  conva- 
lescent from  malarial  and  typhoid  fevers.  Not  one  patient 
died,  in  the  three  or  four  months  that  the  hospital  was  thus 
used.  The  soldiers  were  mostly  members  of  the  U.  S. 
Cavalry  regiments,  that  had  been  in  the  battles  and 
trenches  around  Santiago.    They  showed  their  gratitude 


214  ORIGIN    AND    HISTORY 

in  many  ways.    Extra  trained  nurses  were  provided  with 
the  voluntary  ones,  who  served  in  this  emergency. 

Mrs.  Eldora  Ward,  the  superintendent  of  the  hospital, 
directed  with  skill  the  volunteers  who  offered  themselves 
from  the  homes  and  churches  of  Jamaica.  Those  who 
served  for  Grace  Church,  in  this  capacity  as  nurses,  were 
Miss  Gale,  Mrs.  Kirby,  Mrs.  Detheridge,  Mrs.  George  K. 
Meynen  and  Miss  Pauline  Goodman.  From  other  congre- 
gations Misses  Alma  Chadwick,  Alice  Carey,  Eva  Ham, 
Maud  Pace,  Leila  Chapin,  Kittie  E.  Lampman,  Louise 
Baker,  Mrs.  Wm.  E.  Everitt  and  Mrs.  Jesse  Brown,  Jr. 

The  attendants  in  care  of  sustenance  and  diet  were  Mrs. 
C.  K.  Beldin,  Mrs.  F.  F.  McClintock,  Mrs.  Manning  Smith, 
M.  D.,  Misses  Luckey  and  Gertrude  B.  Browne. 

Dr.  H.  S.  Harris,  chief  surgeon  of  the  Cavalry  Division 
Hospital,  Montauk,  and  the  chairman  of  the  Committee  of 
Military  Aifairs  at  Washington  for  President  McKinley, 
wrote  letters,  expressive  of  their  appreciation  and  gratitude 
for  the  work  done  by  the  officials  of  the  Society,  and  the 
citizens.  There  were  in  all  fifty-eight  under  their  care  for 
several  months. 

An  accurate  account  of  the  receipts  and  expenditures 
was  kept  by  the  Executive  Committee,  and  by  request  re- 
ported afterwards  with  vouchers  to  the  War  Department 
at  Washington,  from  which  was  received  over  $850  in 
reimbursement,  of  which  was  expended  about  $350  in  pro- 
viding an  X-ray  apparatus  for  the  operating  room,  and 
the  remainder  was  given  to  the  building  fund  of  the  Hos- 
pital for  the  new  addition  made  to  it.  A  complete  list  of 
the  soldiers,  their  regiments  and  residences  was  printed  in 
Grace  Church  Chimes,  and  is  preserved  in  the  bound  vol- 


OF    GRACE    CHURCH  2lS 

ume  of  this  church  paper  in  the  Memorial  House  of  Grace 
Church.    It  is  also  here  given. 

The  names  of  the  soldiers  who  have  received  care  in  the 
hospital,  nearly  all  of  whom  have  come  from  Montauk 
army  hospitals  and  most  of  them  from  cavalry  regiments, 
are: 

Ernest  Dickhert,  Troop  F,  9th  Regt. 

James  Snow,  Troop  F,  ist  Regt., Gloversville,  N.  Y. 

Charles  Jones.  Troop  K,  6th  Regt.,  Rome,  Ga. 

James  Roach,  Troop  B,  3rd  Regt. 

Robert  Neppert,  Troop  K,  ist  Regt., New  York  City. 

Charles  Huston,  Troop  F,  ist  Regt. 

Harry  Taylor,  Troop  F,  ist  Regt.,   Chicago. 

Roy  Linville,  Troop  F,  2nd  Regt. 

Ira  C.  Thompson,  Troop  G,  6th  Regt.,   Philadelphia. 

J.  N.  Hepburn,  Troop  C,  ist  Regt., Hopkins,  Mo. 

B.  F.  Gambrill,  Troop  B,  ist  Regt., New  York  City. 

Daniel  vShelley,  Troop  G,  6th  Regt.,    Philadelphia. 

Edward  T.  Bennet,  Troop  C,  ist  Regt., Chicago 

John  Newman,  Troop  M,  ist  Regt., Huntington,  Tenn. 

Edward  Johnson,  Troop  M,  ist  Regt.,  ....Bowling  Green,  Ky. 

George  Fidlar,  Troop  K,  3rd  Regt.,    Princeton,  Mo. 

Henry  Millar,  Troop  M,  loth  Regt.,   Louisville,  Ky. 

Otto  Vockroth,  Troop  C,  ist  Regt.,   Scranton,  Pa. 

Clarence  D.  Baker,  Troop  G,  ist  Regt., Chicago,  Ills. 

Thomas  Davis,  Troop  G,  6th  Regt., 805  2d  Ave.,  N.  Y.  C. 

Hugh  Hunt,  Troop  M,  ist  Regt. 

Arthur  Hoefer,  Troop  D,  2d  Regt., Kildare,  Oklahoma. 

Shirley  Beard,  Troop  K,  2d  Regt.,   Louisville,  Ky. 

Chris  Fennern,  Troop  A,  ist  Regt., Davenport,  la. 

Thomas  Cox,  Troop  B,  ist  Regt.,  Troy,  N.  Y. 

James  J.  Rhodes,  Troop  B,  3rd  Regt. 

Edwin  C.  Bracht,  2d  cavalry, Fort  Smith,  Ark. 

Robert  Stehr,  Troop  A,  3rd  Regt.,   Canton,  O. 

Charles  H.  Seavey,  Co.  E,  21st  111.  Inft.,  .  . .  .Dannemora,  N.  Y. 

David  Crews,  Corp.  Co.  G,  20th  U.  S.  Inft., Taswell,  Ind. 

William  Hendron,  Sergt.,  Co.  i,  ist  111.  Vol., Chicago. 

Paul  J.  Spillane,  Co.  B,  9th  Mass.  Vol., Boston,  Mass. 


216  ORIGIN    AND    HISTORY 

Charles  Sliney,  Co.  B,  9th  Mass.  Vol. Cambridge.  Mass 

Albert  F.  Wesbay,  Co.  F,  2d  Regt.  N.  Y.  M., Ozone  Park. 

John  J.  Meyer,  Co.  M,  201  N.  Y.  V Dunton. 

Frank  Koph,  Co.  F,  7th  U.  S.  Inft Buffalo 

There  were  at  least  four  men  from  Grace  Church  who 
entered  in  the  service  of  the  United  States  in  the  Spanish- 
American  war:  George  A.  Stevens,  of  Co.  A,  Forty-seventh 
Regiment  of  Infantry,  enlisted  Sept.  16,  1899,  at  the  age 
of  18  years,  was  in  eight  engagements  in  Southern  Luzon, 
and  had  a  record  for  continuous  service  of  one  year,  9 
months  and  17  days,  as  ''honest,  faithful  and  character 
good."  He  died  in  less  than  a  year  after  his  return  to 
Jamaica. 

Charles  G.  Smyth  enlisted  in  the  201st  Regt.^  N.  Y.  Vol- 
unteers, and  served  during  the  war.  He  was  adjutant 
clerk  at  Camp  Black. 

Harry  F.  Reed  enlisted  and  became  first  sergeant,  Co.  F, 
201st  Regt.,  N.  Y.  V.  He  was  in  active  service  in  the 
Philippines;  was  promoted  to  be  second  lieutenant,  en- 
listed in  the  U.  S.  Infantry,  and  rose  to  the  rank  of  captain 
in  the  regular  army  after  an  honorable  career  in  the 
Philippines. 

George  E.  Cogswell  enlisted  in  the  U.  S.  Auxiliary  naval 
service,  where  he  remained  till  the  close  of  the  war.  All  of 
these  were  former  members  of  Grace  Church  Sunday 
School,  three  of  them  communicants  of  the  church.  Messrs. 
Smyth  and  Reed  were  also  members  of  Grace  Church 
choir.  Mr.  Stevens  was  confirmed  by  Bishop  Burgess 
shortly  before  his  death. 

On  July  31,  1906,  entered  into  life  eternal  Miss  Harriet 
W.  Cornwell  from  her  home  in  Grove  St.,  at  the  age  of  85 
years,  6  months.    To  no  one  were  the  memories  and  the 


Grace  Church,  Jamaica. 

Interior,  1906. 

( P'hotograph  by  C.   C.   Napier.) 


OF    GRACE    CHURCH  217 

prosperity  of  Grace  Church  more  dear  or  prayfully  cher- 
ished. She  had  held  a  singular  position  in  the  parish. 
Identified  with  it  from  childhood,  she  belonged  to  an  old 
Long  Island  family,  and  was  esteemed  and  loved  by  numer- 
ous friends  and  citizens.  She  was  the  oldest  communicant 
of  Grace  Church  for  several  years  before  her  decease.  Miss 
Cornwell  was  left  early  to  give  loving  care  to  others.  She 
maintained  a  widowed  mother  and  invalid  sister,  and  filled 
a  mother's  place  for  five  orphan  nieces  and  nephews.  Ac- 
cepting these  cares  cheerfully,  she  carried  on  a  millinery 
and  fancy  goods  business  in  the  center  of  Jamaica  until  she 
was  eighty  years  old,  and  it  was  a  blessing  to  her  patrons 
to  meet  her  and  encourage  her.  No  one  was  in  need,  or 
sickness  or  affliction,  who  escaped  her  notice  or  failed  to 
be  made  known  to  those  who  could  come  to  their  aid.  Her 
spirit  was  benevolent  and  charitable,  and  her  regular  at- 
tendance at  church  for  many  years  kept  her  in  touch  with 
its  life  and  inspired  her  prayer  and  deeds  for  its  prosperity. 
Her  last  protracted  illness  proved  her  patient  submission 
to  her  Heavenly  Father's  will.  Kind  and  loving  hands 
ministered  to  her  to  the  last,  and  her  works  follow  her, 
while  she  has  entered  into  the  joy  of  her  Lord. 


218  ORIGIN    AND    HISTORY 


CHAPTER  XXI. 

The  Parish  House,  Enlargement  of  the  Sanctuary,  Local 
Missions,  Bishop  Littlejohn. 

The  celebration  of  the  two  hundredth  anniversary  of  the 
organization  of  Grace  Church  had  already  been  proposed 
as  a  time  when  there  should  be  some  worthy  gift  of  the 
people  to  the  service  of  Him  who  had  wonderfully  sus- 
tained her  in  all  her  poverty  and  trials  and  struggles  to 
maintain  the  principles  of  the  Anglican  Church.  The 
rector  had  in  many  ways  kept  his  project  of  a  parish  house 
in  the  mind  of  the  people.  In  November,  1898,  he  had 
made  a  direct  appeal  to  the  congregation  and  parish,  in  an 
article  in  the  Chimes,  which  so  fully  set  forth  what  the  aim 
of  such  an  undertaking  was,  or  should  be,  that  it  was  pro- 
phetic of  what  was  destined  to  be  accomplished  in  a  later 
rectorship. 

■This  is  such  a  justification  of  what  the  people  did  after- 
wards attempt  to  do,  that  it  is  here  preserved. 

THE  USES  OF  A  PARISH  HOUSE. 

[From  Grace  Church  Chimes,  Novemljer.  1898.] 

There  is  often  an  indefinite  idea  of  the  uses  of  a  Parish  House 
which  this  article  will  try  to  make  clear. 

It  should  be  understood  that  our  Episcopal  churches  have, 
rather  more  than  other  Christian  bodies  in  America,  taken  upon 
themselves  the  character  of  institutional  churches. 

If  a  church  was,  as  it  used  to  be,  simply  an  organization  for 
religious  services,  it  would  have  no  need  of  any  other  building 
;han  a  house  of  worship.     Two  hundred  years  ago,  when  Grace 


OF    GRACE    CHURCH  219 

Church  was  founded,  there  were  no  missionary  societies  in 
America  for  the  extension  of  the  church  in  other  countries  and 
in  our  own.  There  were  no  local  missions,  no  Sunday  School 
instruction,  no  guilds  to  clothe  and  feed  the  needy,  no  industrial 
schools,  no  efforts  to  bring  youth  together  away  from  secular 
temptations,  for  exercise,  recreation,  and  mental  and  moral 
instruction  under  the  control  of  the  church. 

But  Christianity  has  entered  into  a  larger  sphere  of  influence, 
and  interprets  the  spirit  of  Christ's  words  and  efforts  to  save 
men,  as  designed  to  give  them  sound  minds  and  bodies,  with  a 
Godlike  character,  and  to  promote  purity  and  happiness  in  social 
relations.  The  Church  has  therefore  awakened  to  the  larger 
enthusiasm  of  Sunday  School  assemblies,  and  fosters  brother- 
hoods, guilds  and  social  unions. 

Hence  our  Churches  have  need  of  facilities  for  these  works 
as  much  as  for  worship.  There  are  those  in  every  congregation 
who  forget  that  in  our  country  and  age  every  generation  has 
a  broader  and  higher  education  than  the  previous  one,  and  their 
needs  and  tasks  are  to  be  met  by  the  Church  in  a  way  which 
corresponds  with  their  advanced  culture  and  associations. 

A  parish  house  therefore  includes  a  large  assembly  room  for 
Sunday  School,  missionary  and  ecclesiastical  conventions,  and  for 
other  purposes  than  worship.  These  are  entertainments  of  a  health- 
ful nature,  lectures,  concerts,  social  re-unions  of  a  large  congrega- 
tion. These  frequently  recur  in  a  church  of  historic  standing  and 
central  location  in  a  city  and  diocese  like  Grace  Church.  The  fur- 
nishings and  embellishments  of  such  a  room  make  it  desirable  for 
the  use  of  the  community.  These  should  be  commodious  and  com- 
fortable, and  tasteful  as  well  as  churchly  in  character. 

A  gymnasium  in  a  parish  house  gives  a  room  for  the  active  ex- 
ercise and  diversions  of  the  young  of  both  sexes,  so  as  not  to  inter- 
fere with  the  order  and  decorum  of  the  larger  assembly  room.  The 
fees  for  regular  attendance  go  far  to  support  a  gymnasium. 

The  guild  rooms  for  the  missionary  society  with  their  store  rooms 
for  material  and  the  products  of  their  labor  are  important  features 
in  a  parish  house.  The  brotherhood  and  Knights  of  Temperance 
rooms,  the  library  and  reading  room  provided  with  books  and 
magazines  and  papers  give  attractions  of  a  home-like  character  to 


220  ORIGIN    AND    HISTORY 

those  who  arc  willinc^  to  avoid  saloons,  and  would  cultivate  a  fond- 
ness for  reading  and  study.  The  rector's  room  and  reception  room 
for  parishioners  make  him  accessible  to  the  many  who  seek  and 
need  his  counsel,  aid  and  services.  To  these  are  added,  when  con- 
venient, industrial  school  rooms  and  dispensaries  for  the  poor. 

There  is  one  part  of  the  parish  house  which  is  {X'culiarly  the 
care  and  pride  of  the  women — the  kitchen  and  refreshment  rooms 
where  they  can  attract  and  interest  their  families  and  friends,  and 
show  Christian  hospitality  to  brethren  and  strangers  of  other  local- 
ities. 

Grace  Church,  with  such  a  parish  house  as  this  twenty  years  ago, 
would  have  added  very  largely  to  her  numerical  and  financial 
strength  today.  The  approaching  bi-centenary  of  our  church  in 
1901  is  a  point  at  which  every  well-wisher  for  Grace  Church  will 
aim  to  have  these  and  an  enlarged  church  building  accomplished. 
It  is  a  work  urgent  now  to  begin,  that  it  may  be  finished  then.  It 
is  a  work  of  intense  interest  to  all  who  shall  engage  in  it.  It  is 
peculiarly  a  work  for  women  of  the  congregation  to  undertake  and 
begin  without  delay.  They  can  count  upon  a  strong  and  ready 
support  of  the  men. 

Let  them  make  here  a  memorial  of  names  and  families  identified 
with  Grace  Church  in  two  hundred  years  of  honorable  history.  They 
will  thus  memorialize  their  own  active  and  willing  service  to  Christ. 

This  appeal  was  followed  by  other  efforts,  and  was  so 
far  responded  to  by  the  Wardens  and  Vestry  that  they 
authorized  the  rector  to  engage  an  architect,  Mr.  Albert 
Parfitt,  of  Brooklyn,  to  make  a  set  of  plans  embodying  the 
ideas  of  the  rector  and  fulfilling  the  purposes  of  a  parish 
house.  This  caused  a  more  definite  consideration  of  the 
project  in  the  parish.  When  the  plans  were  presented, 
with  a  builder's  estimate  of  a  cost  to  build  and  complete 
the  parish  house  for  525,000,  the  Vestry  were  unable  to 
agree  to  undertake  the  building  of  so  large  a  structure,  and 
voted  against  it.  One  hundred  dollars  was  voted  to  the 
architect  for  the  expense  of  preparing  the  plans.  They 
were  substantially  the  same  that  were  afterwards  made 


OF    GRACE    CHURCH  221 

for  the  Memorial  House  erected  at  twice  the  cost  on  the 
same  ground  for  which  these  plans  were  made,  but  with- 
out the  addition  of  a  rectory  at  the  West  end,  which  com- 
pleted the  design. 

The  project  of  the  enlargement  of  Grace  Church  by 
extending  the  sanctuary  was  then  vigorously  presented 
by  the  rector,  and  met  with  more  encouragement.  Sev- 
eral plans  were  proposed  and  sketches  drawn  by  architects. 
The  people  were  interested,  and  followed  the  suggestions 
made  that  those  living  in  Jamaica  should  not  only  con- 
tribute themselves  to  this  memorial  undertaking  but  appeal 
to  the  many  families  whose  ancestors  or  near  relatives  had 
been  associated  with  the  history  of  Grace  Church,  and 
whose  churchyard  was  their  last  resting-place. 

The  near  approach  of  the  bi-centennial  celebration 
added  energy  to  these  eflforts.  The  rector  preached  a 
sermon  in  January,  1900,  on  ''Memorials  for  God's 
Service,"  which  bore  much  fruit  by  the  blessing  of  God  on 
his  words.  It  was  published  in  the  Chimes  and  reached 
the  whole  parish.  A  committee  in  the  Vestry  was  ap- 
pointed on  the  enlargement  of  the  chancel  and  the  pur- 
chase of  a  new  organ.  Mrs.  S.  S.  Stocking  made  the  first 
notable  donation  of  a  stained  glass  window  over  the  altar 
for  a  new  sanctuary,  to  be  built  by  Mayer  &  Co.  of 
Munich,  as  a  memorial  of  her  husband,  the  Rev.  Samuel 
Seabury  Stocking.  The  subject  chosen  was  Christ  send- 
ing forth  his  Disciples  ''Go  ye  into  all  the  world  and  preach 
the  Gospel."  This  magnificent  window,  originally  de- 
signed for  Grace  Church,  has  since  been  copied  for  several 
other  notable  churches  in  the  United  States.  It  harmon- 
ized perfectly  with  the  plans  for  the  sanctuary,  which  had 
been  presented  by  Messrs.  Cady,  Berg  and  See,  of  New 
York,  and  adopted  by  the  Vestry. 


222  ORIGIN    AND    HISTORY 

The  larger  gifts  which  followed  were  in  the  form  of 
memorials:  an  organ  by  John  M.  Crane,  Esq.,  in  memory 
of  his  wife,  Harriet  Seabury  Crane;  a  pulpit  by  James 
Denton  and  brothers  in  memory  of  ancestors  who  early  had 
been  connected  with  Grace  Church  and  the  Vestry;  a 
communion  rail  by  C  C.  Napier,  in  memory  also  of  his 
parents,  brothers  and  sisters;  a  reredos  of  carved  oak  by 
W.  S.  and  F.  Cogswell,  in  memory  of  their  parents;  and  an 
altar  of  eschallion  marble  with  marble  pavements,  by  Mr. 
Theodore  Johnson,  in  memory  of  his  father.  Rev.  William 
Lupton  Johnson,  D.  D.  The  prayer  desk  and  seat,  and 
sanctuary  seats,  were  given  by  Rev.  C.  A.  Belden  and 
mother  in  memory  of  Rev.  S.  S.  Stocking. 

The  crowning  memorial  of  all  these  and  other  gifts  else- 
where described  in  this  history  was  the  erection  of  the 
sanctuary  itself  by  Mary  Rhinelander  King  in  memory  of 
her  parents,  John  A.  and  Mary  Colden  King,  at  a  cost  of 
nearly  eight  thousand  dollars. 

Work  was  begun  by  the  contractors,  Messrs.  O'Connor 
&  Booth,  on  June  3rd.  The  rear  wall  of  the  church  was 
removed  and  the  furniture  of  the  church  transferred  to  the 
chapel  on  Flushing  Avenue,  which  had  been  refitted  by 
the  Vestry,  and  where  services  were  to  be  held  during  the 
improvements  made  in  the  church. 

The  building  of  the  sanctuary,  the  renovation  of  the 
church  structure,  and  the  erection  of  the  memorials 
required  nine  months.  They  were  consecrated,  and  the 
church  reopened  for  services  April  9,  1902.  The  amount 
contributed  and  expended  on  these  improvements  was 
;^15,096.68. 

Individual  gifts,  not  entering  into  the  treasurer's  reports 
through  the  Altar  Guild  and  rector's  hands,  increased  this 
sum  to  over  seventeen  thousand  dollars. 


OF    GRACE    CHURCH  223 

The  subscriptions  and  donations  for  the  new  sanctuary 
amounted  to  $13,739.10;  with  $1,357.58  additional,  bal- 
ance paid  by  Miss  Mary  Rhinelander  King,  the  total  was 
$15,096.68.  The  individual  gifts,  whose  value  cannot  be 
given,  are  elsewhere  enumerated  in  this  history. 

During  these  activities  and  extraordinary  gifts  of  the 
parishioners  and  communicants  and  friends  of  Grace 
Church,  there  was  increased  elfort  to  enlarge  the  local 
mission  work  of  the  church. 

On  Sunday  evening,  April  21,  1900,  the  first  Sunday 
after  Easter,  services  of  the  Church  were  begun  by  the 
rector  at  the  residence  of  Mrs.  H.  Bisbee  at  Springfield. 
These  were  continued  for  two  years  with  much  hopeful- 
ness that  a  chapel  would  be  erected  and  the  services  per- 
manently established.  Rev.  G.  Wharton  McMullen,  of 
Queens,  was  placed  in  charge,  under  the  direction  of  the 
rector,  who  also  often  officiated.  In  June  a  regular  cele- 
bration of  the  Holy  Communion  was  instituted  for  the 
second  Sunday  of  the  month,  and  a  class  for  confirmation 
was  prepared  by  the  rector. 

An  altar  and  furnishings  and  vestments  were  presented 
by  the  Church  people  in  Roslyn,  Queens,  and  the  Kings 
Daughters  of  Grace  Church.  A  plot  of  ground,  consisting 
of  five  lots,  was  offered  for  a  chapel  by  Mrs.  H.  Bisbee, 
fifteen  subscriptions  amounting  to  $172  pledged  towards 
$500,  proposed  to  be  expended  on  the  chapel,  for  which 
plans  had  been  made.  Ten  or  twelve  baptisms  and  nearly 
as  many  confirmations  testified  to  the  faithful  work  of  the 
priest  in  charge,  who  mini:tered  to  congregations  of 
thirty-five  or  forty  persons.  Yet  there  came  in  the  changes 
of  this  community,  by  fire  and  removals  to  other  places,  a 
serious  question  as  to  continuing  the  work,  or  making  it 
permanent  by  building  a  chapel.    At  the  end  of  two  years 


224  ORIGIN    AND    HISTORY 

only  two  or  three  families  (and  those  very  small)  were 
left,  who  preferred  the  Episcopal  services,  and  the  "Chapel 
of  Ease"  was  temporarily  closed.  The  opportunity,  how- 
ever, should  have  been  better  improved. 

A  few  years  afterwards,  the  community  of  Springfield, 
which  is  still  a  part  of  Grace  Church  parish,  was  revived, 
large  expenditures  made  in  buildings  and  the  purchase  of 
lots,  and  other  Christian  missions  have  flourished  where 
Grace  Church  should  be  represented  in  her  work  for  the 
evangelization  of  her  ancient  inheritance,  under  her  royal 
charters  and  State  legislations. 

Grace  Church  Charitable  Guild  had  long  been  estab- 
lished, and  continued  to  receive  regular  support  through 
envelope  offerings,  its  object  was  to  look  after  the  poor 
of  the  parish,  rendering  them  such  assistance  as  should  be 
needed.  Many  of  the  former  contributors  to  this  guild 
had  changed  residence,  or  had  been  removed  by  death, 
and  their  places  not  being  filled  by  others,  its  funds  became 
greatly  reduced. 

Miss  Phebe  Hagner  continued  to  be  its  treasurer,  and 
made  appeals  for  it  through  the  Chimes,  which  were  sec- 
onded by  the  rector.  With  some  hesitation  this  most 
useful  guild  was  suiTered  to  lapse  in  its  efficiency,  as  its 
object  was  co-ordinate  with  the  purposes  of  the  rector's 
fund.  Few  attended  its  annual  meetings,  and  in  later 
years  its  officers  ceased  to  be  elected  annually.  It  was, 
however,  left  in  such  relations  to  the  Church  that  its  work 
could  be  at  any  time  revived. 

The  jubilee  of  the  Church  Charity  Foundation  was  ap- 
proaching, and  Grace  Church,  ever  represented  in  this 
great  charity,  by  most  efficient  members  and  officers,  came 
forward  to  take  an  active  part  in  its  celebration  of  fifty 


OF    GRACE    CHURCH  225 

years  of  widely  extended  work  within  the  diocese  of  Long 
Island. 

To  the  proposed  fund  of  $100,000,  the  members  of  the 
parish  contributed  more  than  $500,  and  in  the  great  fete 
held  for  the  same  object  in  the  Brooklyn  Academy  of 
Music  had  a  prominent  part  with  St.  John's  Church,  in  the 
English  Garden,  the  idea  of  which  originated  in  the  sugges- 
tions of  several  ladies  of  the  committee  of  Grace  Church 
for  the  fete.  Mrs.  H.  O.  Ladd  was  president  of  this 
committee,  Mrs.  Wm.  S.  Cogswell,  vice-president,  and 
Mrs.  Beverley  Betts  was  chairman  of  the  house  committee. 
Associated  in  the  several  committees  of  Grace  Church 
were  Mrs.  B.  J.  Brenton,  Mrs.  Detheridge,  Mrs.  P.  Meynen, 
Mrs.  Wayne,  Mrs.  Blondel,  Mrs.  Henry  Van  Allen,  Mrs, 
John  Denton  and  Mrs.  A.  J.  Blanchard. 

At  about  the  same  time  three  events  of  great  historical 
importance  occupied  the  thoughts  of  the  country,  the 
church  and  the  diocese.  The  first  was  the  tragedy  of 
President  William  McKinley's  death,  Sept.  14, 1901,  and  the 
universal  mourning  at  the  great  funeral  obsequies,  in 
which  every  church  took  an  individual  part  in  its  locality. 

Following  this  were  the  death.  May  19,  1901,  of  the  dis- 
tinguished Bishop  of  the  diocese,  Rt.  Rev.  Abraham  N. 
Littlejohn,  D.  D.,  LL.  D.,  and  the  election  by  the  diocese 
Nov.  20,  1901,  in  the  Cathedral  of  the  Incarnation,  Garden 
City,  of  the  Rev.  Frederick  Burgess,  D.  D.,  rector  of  Grace 
Church,  Brooklyn.  In  the  early  hours  of  the  morning  of 
the  day  of  the  convention,  after  sixteen  hours  of  exciting 
(but  apparently,  until  the  last,  ineflfectual)  balloting,  the 
tired  members  of  the  Convention  sang  the  Te  Deum,  and 
returned  to  their  homes. 

Bishop  Littlejohn,  born  Dec.  13,  1824,  was  consecrated 
Bishop  of  Long  Island  January,  1869,  the  first  bishop  of 


226  ORIGIN    AND    HISTORY 

the  diocese.  During  the  thirty-two  years  of  his  continu- 
ance in  the  office  of  Bishop,  the  diocese  increased  from 
eighty-five  to  one  hundred  and  fifty-four  clergymen,  with 
double  the  number  of  churches  and  fourfold  the  number 
of  communicants.  In  the  year  of  his  death  Bishop  Little- 
john  recorded  the  largest  number  of  confirmations  in  the 
history  of  the  diocese.  He  was  one  of  the  most  distin- 
guished bishops  in  the  Protestant  Episcopal  Church  of  the 
United  States,  both  for  his  scholarship  and  intellectual 
ability. 

Bishop  Littlejohn  was  widely  known  in  the  Anglican 
Communion  in  Europe.  He  received  an  honorary  degree 
of  Doctor  of  Laws  from  Cambridge  when  he  delivered  a 
course  of  theological  lectures,  and  he  was  author  of  a 
number  of  volumes  on  religious  themes. 

In  the  organization  and  establishment  of  the  diocesan 
institutions  he  showed  so  great  force  and  wisdom,  as  to 
leave  a  costly  cathedral,  three  largely  endowed  schools  for 
boys  and  girls,  a  renowned  Charity  Foundation,  and  or- 
ganizations which  provided  for  the  aged,  the  orphan,  the 
blind  and  the  crippled.  The  record  of  this  life  work  as  a 
Bishop  only  is  so  large  as  to  make  one  forgetful  that  it 
was  but  little  more  than  half  of  an  energetic  and  busy  life 
thus  spent  in  the  ministry  of  the  Church. 

In  the  personal  character  of  Bishop  Littlejohn  were  com- 
bined dignity,  severity,  a  strong  will,  a  cold  manner  that 
yielded  however  to  warmth  and  grace,  and  kindliness 
towards  those  who  thus  approached  him,  but  frowned 
alike  on  those  who  opposed  his  wishes,  or  forfeited  his 
confidence. 

His  exalted  position  and  office  were  thus  limitations  to 
his  friendships.    His  virtues  were  those  that  secured  the 


OF    GRACE    CHURCH  227 

permanency  of  his  influence  rather  than  the  aflfection  of 
his  large  acquaintance.  His  later  years  showed  the  tender- 
ness which  really  existed  in  his  nature,  but  had  been  over- 
borne by  the  qualities  that  made  him  win  respect  and  se- 
cure the  elTectiveness  and  growth  of  his  diocese.  He  left 
places  in  many  spheres  of  Christian  activity  to  be  filled  by 
his  successor  in  the  great  office  of  the  Church. 

During  the  rebuilding  of  the  sanctuary  and  chancel  of 
Grace  Church,  Bishop  Littlejohn  expressed  to  the  rector 
a  great  desire  to  see  their  completion,  which  would  be,  as 
he  said,  a  fulfillment  of  his  long  cherished  hopes  that  this 
Church,  so  prominent  in  the  diocese,  might  make  its  place 
of  worship  better  adapted  to  the  dignity  of  the  great  cele- 
brations of  Holy  Communion  and  the  offices  of  the  clergy 
and  choir  in  that  worship.  He  watched  the  progress  of 
the  improvements,  and  suggested  to  the  committee  the 
adoption  of  the  passage  behind  the  altar  for  the  communi- 
cation of  the  clergy  and  choir.  This  had  been  otherwise 
urged  upon  their  consideration. 


228  ORIGIN    AND    HISTORY 


CHAPTER  XXII. 

The  Bi-Centenary  Celebration — Church  Activities — Wil- 
liam D.  Wood,  M.  D. — John  M.  Crane's  Death. 

The  choice  of  Rev.  Frederick  Burgess,  D.  D.,  as  Bishop, 
was  happily  reached  under  divine  guidance,  and,  though 
it  had  been  made  unexpectedly  and  at  a  late  hour  in  the 
Convention,  it  was  at  once  favorably  regarded  as  likely  to 
be  promotive  of  harmony  and  the  progress  of  the  Church 
in  Long  Island.  Doctor  Burgess  had  personal  qualities 
which  would  satisfy  earnest  minds  and  inspire  loyalty  in 
those  who  should  seek  for  counsel  and  help  in  their 
priestly  duties  and  Christian  life.  His  unaffected  religious 
character,  intelligent  scholarship  and  courageous  grasp  of 
the  faith  and  doctrines  of  the  church  were  united  with  a 
kindliness  of  spirit  and  address  which  inspired  friendship 
and  respect.  There  was  no  doubt  of  the  confirmation  of 
this  selection  by  all  the  dioceses,  and  arrangements  were 
made  for  his  consecration  in  Grace  Church,  Brooklyn. 

Grace  Church  was  represented  by  the  rector  in  this  ser- 
vice as  one  of  the  committee  of  arrangements,  the  presid- 
ing Bishop  being  the  Rt.  Rev.  Henry  Codman  Potter,  D. 
D.,  LL.  D.,  of  New  York. 

The  consecration  service  and  Bi-Centenary  celebration 
of  Grace  Church,  on  April  9,  1902,  was  happily  accom- 
plished, and  the  order  of  the  services  carried  out  without 
failure  in  any  part.  The  succinct  report  of  it  in  the  Brook- 
lyn Daily  Times,  by  Mr.  F.  E.  Detheridge,  to  whose  faith- 
ful and  willing  services  Grace  Church  owed  the  preserva- 


The  Right  Rev.  Frederick  Burgess,  D.  D. 


OF    GRACE    CHURCH  229 

tion  of  much  of  her  current  history  for  this  whole  rector- 
ship, is  here  reproduced. 

"The  new  memorial  sanctuary  in  Grace  Church  and  the 
beautiful  memorial  appointments  both  in  the  sanctuary 
and  chancel,  including  the  altar,  altar  window,  sanctuary 
chairs,  prayer  desk,  communion  rail,  pulpit,  organ  and 
reredos,  were  consecrated  by  Bishop  Burgess  yesterday. 
The  historic  parish  has  entered  upon  the  third  century  of 
its  existence,  and  in  the  evening  a  bi-centenary  celebration 
was  held.  The  afternoon  was  devoted  to  lunch  and 
speeches  in  Colonial  hall.  Altogether  the  day  adds  a 
bright  page  to  the  history  of  the  parish  and  it  is  one  of 
which  the  rector  may  well  be  proud. 

"The  consecration  service  was  participated  in  by  about 
thirty-five  clergymen,  from  various  parts  of  the  diocese 
and  from  Manhattan,  including  Dean  Cox,  of  the  Cathe- 
dral; Archdeacons  Bryan  and  Holden,  and  the  Rev.  George 
Williamson  Smith,  D.  D.,  president  of  Trinity  College, 
who  was  for  many  years  rector  of  the  parish.  Those  of 
the  clergy  who  were  to  assist  in  the  service  took  seats  in 
the  chancel,  the  others  occupying  reserved  seats  at  the 
chancel  end  of  the  church.  The  pastors  of  the  local' 
churches  were  guests  of  the  occasion,  and  marched  in  the 
procession  with  the  clergy. 

"The  Bishop,  having  been  formally  received  at  the 
church  door  by  the  Wardens  and  Vestrymen,  the  proces- 
sion, preceded  by  the  crucifer  bearing  the  processional 
cross,  moved  up  the  aisle,  the  Bishop  and  clergy  repeating 
responsively  the  24th  Psalm.  The  consecration  service 
then  proceeded.  The  instrument- of  donation  was  read  by 
Warden  W.  S.  Cogswell,  and  at  the  conclusion  of  the  cere- 
monial the  rector  read  the  sentence  of  consecration,  which 
is  a  formal  certificate  from  the  Bishop  that  the  consecration 


230  ORIGIN    AND    HISTORY 

has  been  performed.  Following  the  consecration,  led  by 
the  vested  choir,  under  the  direction  of  Frank  E.  Hopkins, 
organist  and  choirmaster,  was  sung  the  hymn,  'For  all  the 
Saints  who  from  their  labors  rest.' 

"The  Rev.  Joshua  Kimber,  of  Richmond  Hill,  read 
Morning  Prayer.  The  first  lesson  was  read  by  the  Rev. 
Charles  Belden,  of  Astoria,  and  the  second  by  Rev.  Robert 
Rogers  of  Brooklyn.  Archdeacon  Holden  of  Suffolk 
County  read  the  Epistle,  and  the  Gospel  was  read  by  Dean 
Cox.  The  Bishop  read  the  Nicene  Creed,  which  brought 
that  portion  of  the  service  to  an  end. 

'The  Rev.  Dr.  G.  W.  Smith  delivered  the  sermon.  He 
took  for  his  text  the  I3th  verse  of  Psalm  135,  Thy  name, 
O  Lord,  endureth  forever,  so  doth  thy  memorial,  O  Lord, 
from  generation  to  generation.'  The  morning  service  closed 
with  Holy  Communion.  A  collation  followed  the  service  at 
Colonial  Hall  presided  over  by  the  Bishop.  At  the  conclu- 
sion of  the  meal  there  were  more  interesting  addresses.  The 
speakers  were:  the  Rev.  Henry  D.  Waller,  of  St.  George's, 
Flushing,  who  talked  of  the  Church  in  Colonial  days;  the 
Rev.  Mr.  Wick  of  the  Jamaica  Dutch  Church,  who  greeted 
Grace  Church  on  behalf  of  his  own  people,  and  bid  the 
parish  Godspeed;  the  Rev.  Jere.  Cook,  of  St.  George's, 
Hempstead;  the  Rev.  Dr.  Smith,  the  Rev.  H.  O.  Ladd,  and 
Rev.  W.  P.  Evans  of  Richmond  Hill. 

'Tea  was  served  in  the  hall  to  the  visiting  clergy  and 
others  before  the  evening  services.  Among  the  clergymen 
present  were  the  Revs.  Dr.  Frederick  Burgess  and  George 
Williamson  Smith,  and  Samuel  Cox,  Cornelius  Thwing, 
Edward  M.  McGuffey,  Charles  Belden,  Jere.  K.  Cook,  G. 
Wharton  McMullen,  William  P.  Evans,  J.  C.  Welwood, 
G.  W.  Davenport,  Robert  Rogers,  Henry  P.  Bryan,  Kirk- 
land  Huske,   Frederick  W.  M.  Burgess,   F.   H.  Church, 


OF    GRACE    CHURCH  231 

Charles  L.  Newbold,  Robert  B.  Kimber,  Herbert  J.  Glover, 
William  Holden,  Isaac  Peck,  James  H.  Smith,  Rockland 
T.  Homans,  Horatio  O.  Ladd,  George  C.  Grover,  W.  H. 
Heigham,  William  E.  Nies,  Thomas  Martin,  F.  S.  Griflfen, 
Henry  D.  Waller,  Henry  Mesier,  Joshua  Kimber,  Frank 
W.  Townley,  William  H.  Weeks,  Charles  G.  Clark,  J. 
Clarence  Jones,  Ph.  D.,  and  the  following  pastors  of 
Jamaica  churches:  Rev.  Edwin  Richmond,  F.  Schmitt,  J. 
H.  Hobbs,  R.  K.  Wick,  W.  H.  Phraner  and  Frederick 
Stoebner. 

"The  bi-centenary  celebration  in  the  evening,  the  rector 
presiding,  began  with  the  processional.  The  Church's  One 
Foundation,  and  the  usual  choral  evening  service  was  ren- 
dered supplemented  with  prayers  appropriate  to  the 
occasion. 

"Bishop  Burgess  gave  an  address  touching  on  memorials 
generally.  He  declared  that  the  Church  itself  is  a  me- 
morial, and  it  teaches  that  memory  must  be  exercised,  that 
the  good  deeds  of  the  dead  might  stimulate  the  living. 

"The  Rev.  Edward  M.  McGutfey,  rector  of  St.  James 
Church,  Newtown,  gave  an  address  on  the  'Ministers  and 
Rectors  of  Grace  Church.'  He  spoke  of  each  one  from  the 
period  when  the  Rev.  John  Bartow  took  charge  of  the 
parish,  in  1702,  down  to  the  present  time,  giving  some 
interesting  particulars  of  many  of  them.    He  said  in  part: 

I  have  tried  to  give  you  a  suggestion  of  each  one  of  those  who 
have  served  Grace  Church  in  a  ministerial  capacity.  Other  men 
labored  and  ye  are  entered  into  their  labors.  We  all  owe  an  im- 
mense debt  to  the  past.  You  of  Grace  Church  worshipping  in  this 
beautiful  and  renewed  church  owe  more  than  you  can  ever  know  to 
those  faithful  men,  clerical  and  lay,  who  for  200  years  labored  to 
bring  Grace  Church  to  what  it  is  today.  You  must  make  your 
contribution  and  pass  on,  unimpaired  and  strengthened,  what  you 


232  ORIGIN    AND    HISTORY 

have  received  Today  the  rectors  of  the  daup^hter  parishes  of  Flush- 
ing and  Newtown  are  here  to  greet  you  and  wish  you  godspeed. 
To  me,  as  the  rector  of  Newtown,  was  assigned  the  honor  of  re- 
calling these  memories  of  two  centuries 

A  study  of  our  church's  past  impresses  several  things  upon  me. 
First,  that  times  have  changed  vastly  for  the  better,  morally,  socially 
and  ecclesiastically. 

Second,  that  in  spite  of  recent  jeremiads  over  church  attendance, 
never  was  there,  on  Long  Island  at  least,  more  people  going  reg- 
ularly to  church. 

Third,  that  people  now  give  dollars  for  church  support,  where  in 
early  days  they  gave  cents  or  nothing. 

Fourth,  that  the  Long  Island  clergy  are  better  treated  than  they 
used  to  be,  and  enjoying  salaries  not  mainly  made  up  of  faith,  hope 
and  charity,  plus  criticism  and  fault-finding. 

Fifth,  that  the  laity  of  Long  Island  have  learned  that  the  best  way 
to  make  their  clergy  effective  is  to  pay  well,  treat  them  well,  and 
give  them  their  friendship  and  co-operation. 

Sixth,  that  the  old  prejudice  against  the  Protestant  Episcopal 
Church,  which  lingered  in  some  robustness  of  life  until  at  least 
1850,  has  almost  totally  disappeared,  and  that  the  Church  idea, 
which  was  so  dear  to  Hishop  Seabury  and  earlier  rectors  of  Jamaica, 
is  fast  becoming  the  prevailing  tone  of  Long  Island  religious  senti- 
ment. 

Seventh,  that  the  historic  parishes  of  Jamaica.  Newtown  and 
Flushing  are  now  abreast  of  any  churches  of  New  York  in  intelligent 
and  effective  pastoral  administration  in  all  things  properly  belonging 
to  ritual  and  ecclesiology. 

The  outlook  is  encouraging  and  inspiring.  The  despised  church 
of  Colonial  life  is  fast  becoming  the  healthy  and  dominant  religious 
influence  here  in  Queens  County,  making  for  righteousness  and  the 
Kingdom  of  our  Lord  and  Saviour  Jesus  Christ. 

To  my  brother,  the  rector  of  Grace  Church,  to  my  friends  the' 
Wardens  anrl  Vestrymen  of  this  historic  parish,  to  my  brethren  the 
members  of  this  dear  old   Colonial   church,  salutations,  greetings 


OF    GRACE    CHURCH  233 

and  best  wishes  from  the  rector,  Wardens  and  \'estr}men  as  well 
as  the  congregation  of  St.  James  Church,  Newtown.  Ad  multos 
annos. 

"The  choir  sang^  at  the  offertory  the  chorus,  'Unfold  Ye 
Portals  Everlasting'  from  the  Redemption  by  Gounod,  and 
the  service  terminated  with  the  recessional  hymn,  Tor  all 
the  Saints.' 

'The  altar  was  decorated  with  flowers,  and  large  congre- 
grations  were  present  at  each  of  the  services. 

"Committee  of  Arrangements:  Horatio  Oliver  Ladd, 
rector;  William  S.  Cogswell,  Warden;  George  K.  Meynen, 
M.  D.,  William  D.  Llewellyn,  Vestrymen;  Marshals,  Rev. 
William  P.  Evans,  Rev.  George  W.  McMullen. 

Ladies  of  Committee  on  Reception  at  Colonial  Hall: 
Mrs.  W.  S.  Cogswell,  Mrs.  B.  J.  Brenton,  Mrs.  John  S. 
Denton,  Mrs.  W.  D.  Llewellyn,  Mrs.  Charles  Blondel,  Mrs. 
H.  C.  Smith,  Miss  Kate  Napier,  Mrs.  George  K.  Meynen, 
Mrs.  A.  J.  Blanchard,  Mrs.  C.  A.  Belden,  Mrs.  Philip  K. 
Meynen,  Miss  Eirene  Ladd,  Mrs.  W.  C.  Baker,  Mrs.  B.  R. 
Betts,  Mrs.  Henry  A.  Van  Allen,  Miss  Phebe  Hagner,  Mrs. 
Martin  L  Rapelyea,  Mrs.  James  Lothian,  Mrs.  Frank  B. 
Andreu,  Mrs.  George  A.  Hicks,  Mrs.  A.  J.  Wilkinson,  Mrs. 
J.  E.  Stewart,  Mrs.  W.  J.  Ballard,  Miss  Kate  Aymar. 

"Committee  of  Parish  Social  Guild  for  Chapel  Recep- 
tion: Mrs.  James  Lothian,  Mrs.  Frederick  Damon,  Miss 
Pierce,  Miss  Damon,  Mrs.  Chickering,  Robert  B.  Mitchell. 

"Ushers  for  the  day:  Charles  E.  Bissell,  George  E.  Cogs- 
well, Frank  D.  Denton. 

"The  Choir:  Sopranos,  Herbert  Wood,  Albert  Weber, 
Alexander  Fleury,  Frank  Muchmore,  Walter  Webb,  Arthur 
White,  Howard  Wood,  Harold  Peto,  Ray  Dunham,  Bert 


234  ORIGIN    AND    HISTORY 

Holmes,  Fred  Baker,  Tracy  Snediker,  Douglas  Holt,  Lester 
Haight,  George  Brierly.  Altos,  Floyd  Raynor,  John 
Smyth.  Tenors,  Percy  James,  John  M.  Smyth,  W.  Down- 
ing. Basses,  Charles  C.  Henderson,  Asa  Dunham.  Cross 
Bearer,  William  Wood  Smith.  Organist  and  Choirmaster, 
Frank  E.  Hopkins. 

"The  sermon  in  its  eloquent  exposition  and  appreciation 
of  the  theme  soon  rose  to  the  elevation  of  this  grand  and 
inspiring  service.  It  led  the  congregation  to  the  specially 
memorial  part  which  is  here  given. 

It  is  now  two  hundred  years  since  the  parish  of  Grace  Church 
came  into  being,  and  here  the  venerable  Society  for  the  Propagation 
of  the  Gospel  in  Foreign  Parts  placed  the  first  of  the  many  lights  it 
has  kindled  in  all  lands.  It  is  a  long  time  in  the  history  of  America, 
though  a  short  time  in  the  life  of  the  Christian  church,  less  than  a 
moment  with  Him  who  endureth  forever  in  heaven.  Building  has 
given  place  to  building,  but  they  sprang  from  each  other  in  a  con- 
tinuous life  and  development,  for  the  real  Church  of  God  is  in  the 
hearts  of  his  people  (as  our  Lord  said,  "The  Kingdom  of  God  is 
within  you"),  and  they  have  been  only  successive  expressions  of  the 
same  spirit  of  devotion.  The  old  gives  place  to  the  new,  which  is 
yet  not  altogether  new ;  for  it  grows  out  of  the  old  by  the  operation 
of  the  vital  forces  inherent  in  Christian  faith.  The  old  founda- 
tions serve  for  the  new  super-structure. 

When  our  forefathers  came  to  this  place  the  sounds  of  the  Refor- 
mation were  still  in  the  air,  and  they  feared  the  seductive  influence 
of  a  sensuous  w'orship  and  stately  ceremonial  because  they  were 
associated  with  the  corruption  in  life  and  doctrine  which  they  were 
still  vigorously  combating. 

It  was  important  at  that  time  that  the  worship  of  Protestant 
Christianity  be  severe  and  simple  in  its  forms.  When  Grace  Church 
was  organized  it  was  not  fifteen  years  since  England  w'as  all  aflame 
to  drive  James  the  Second  from  the  throne,  from  fear  that  he  aimed 
to  restore  the  P'apal  supremacy.  Many  good  people  regarded  any 
form  of  prayer,  and  retention  of  historic  ceremonies,  as  dangerous. 
The  pressure  of  the  Puritan,  the  extreme  Protestant,  was  strong 
and  the  conflict  between  the  stubborn  convictions  of  the  churchmen 


OF    GRACE    CHURCH  235 

and  the  aggressions  of  the  standing  order  of  New  England,  modified 
the  workings  of  both  in  this  battle  ground  of  opposing  forces  of 
Protestant  Christianity  The  churchmen  moving  east  from  New 
York,  and  the  Congregationalist  coming  west  from  the  Connecticut 
colonies  on  the  north  shore  of  Long  Island,  battled  here  for 
supremacy.  Religion  was  intensely  theological.  The  sermon  claimed 
chief  place — so  it  should  always,  I  think — but  in  Grace  Church 
its  chief  function  was  to  buttress  the  prayer  book.  It  was  apolo- 
getic and  dealt  chiefly  with  the  distinctive  doctrines  of  the  English 
Church;  but  now  it  is  mostly  for  edification  in  the  larger  religious 
life,  and  seldom  lays  chief  stress  upon  the  distinctive  claims  of  the 
church ;  for  they  are  regarded  as  having  a  lawful  place  in  Christian 
forensics. 

To  us  the  sermons  from  1700  to  iS'oo  are  dreary  reading,  for 
the  questions  they  dealt  with  have  been  settled,  or  at  least  quieted. 
To  those  men,  the  sermons  of  today  would  be  insignificant  or  un- 
intelligible for  the  questions  which  agitate  us  today  were  not  yet 
mooted.  Yet  they  did  their  work  in  the  hearts  and  souls  of  men 
for  the  preservation  and  upbuilding  of  the  Kingdom  of  God,  and  we 
have  entered  into  their  labors.  Our  Church  life  in  its  richness  of 
worship  and  fullness  of  activity  is  largely  possible  only  because  of 
the  dying  out  of  conflicts  in  the  apparent  stagnation  of  Church  Hfe 
in  the  eighteenth  century.  That  phase  would  have  had  no  use 
for  the  extensions  of  this  building,  or  the  facilities  now  provided 
for  a  richer  and  more  ornate  worship. 

A  life  of  greater  culture  calls  for  an  aesthetic  advance  in  the 
appointments  of  the  Church,  and  a  more  ornate  interpretation  of  the 
rubrics  in  worship.  The  Sunday  School  is  now  universal  in  Amer- 
ica. Christianity,  or  Christian  life  has  passed  largely  from  the 
theological  to  the  philanthropic  phase.  In  a  generation  which 
strives  to  belittle  the  Bible  and  the  Creeds,  the  Church  as  in  many 
other  epochs  of  her  history,  has  instinctively  stepped  forth  with 
the  resistless  power  of  divine  charity  and  draws  to  her,  by  all  the 
cords  of  a  man  those  who  might  deride  or  refuse  to  listen  to  her 
doctrines.  Her  work  has  broadened.  It  is  more  social  in  all  its 
efforts  and  objects.  Men  will  learn  of  the  doctrine  by  doing  God's 
will.  The  clergy,  instead  of  standing  apart  from  the  people  in  the 
isolation  of  Greek  and  Hebrew  dead  languages  are  associated  with 
them,  heart  and  hand,  in  the  common  work  of  ameliorating  evils  and 


236  ORIGIN    AND    HISTORY 

extendiiiGf  blessinj:^^  to  the  ignorant  and  in(H£2^ent.  and  in  all  phases 
of  what  is  known  as  parish  work. 

In  this  expansion  of  Church  life  the  sanctuary  cannot  contain  all 
the  conveniences  which  are  called  for,  and  so  becomes  the  center 
around  which  must  be  clustered,  like  the  chambers  built  around  the 
walls  in  Jerusalem,  many  structures  for  the  service  of  God.  And 
just  as  to  meet  the  simpler  needs  of  former  days  those  who  inherited 
their  Christian  names  and  faith  from  previous  generations  rose  up 
in  the  spirit  of  devotion  and  gave  and  labored  for  new  buildings 
when  needed,  so  has  that  spirit  prompted  the  extension  and  beauti- 
fying of  the  place  where  God's  honor  dwells  in  this  our  day. 

An  old  parish  like  this  is  an  eloquent  witness  of  God's  truth  and 
mercy  from  generation  to  generation.  In  some  cases  we  find  the 
same  names  among  benefactors  of  the  parish  from  first  to  last.  Each 
has  left  some  association,  some  token  of  tenderness  and  aflfection, 
some  name  on  the  saintly  roll.  At  some  point  new  names  are  in- 
corporated in  the  continuous  life  of  the  parish  and  fill  the  gaps 
left  by  the  departed.  The  old  love  and  veneration  for  the  sacred 
spot  which  is  hallowed  by  the  graves  of  former  generations,  appeals 
effectively  to  many  whose  homes  are  distant,  but  who  value  their 
inheritance  to  the  Church  of  their  fathers.  Hither,  during  the  last 
two  hundred  years,  many  have  been  brought  from  the  ends  of  the 
earth,  to  rest  beside  the  ashes  of  their  kindred  till  the  resurrection 
morn,  and  in  many  instances  inherited  affection  strengthens  the 
personal  tie. 

The  trials  of  the  parish  for  twenty  years  after  the  Revolution  were 
most  severe.  The  Church  was  discredited  as  the  representative  of 
a  foreign  and  hostile  State.  The  stipend  from  the  Venerable  So- 
ciety was  withdrawn,  the  contributions  from  the  English  garrison 
which  had  been  stationed  here  during  the  war  ceased,  and  the  native 
churchmen  were  impoverished.  At  that  dark  hour,  when  existence 
itself  seemed  precarious,  a  strong  hand  brought  salvation.  Rufus 
King,  one  of  our  most  eminent  statesmen,  one  of  the  creators  of 
the  nation,  selected  Jamaica  for  his  country  home,  and  mightily  re- 
inforced the  struggling  parish.  His  distinguished  public  services, 
his  high  character  and  ample  means,  transformed  the  scene,  and  the 
dying  church  took  a  long  breath.  By  his  accession  much  of  the 
reproach  due  to  English  affiliations  was  removed,  and  the  dis- 
couraged people  naturally  turned  to  him  for  guidance.     He  at  once 


The  Napier,   Johnson  and  Cogswell  Memorials. 


The  Denton  Memorial. 


The  Stocking  Memorial. 


OF    GRACE    CHURCH  237 

showed  a  deep  concern  for  the  welfare,  usefuhiess  and  character  of 
the  Church,  and  in  a  few  years  secured  from  Trinity  Church,  New 
York,  of  which  he  was  a  Warden,  a  landed  endowment  which  has 
been  a  sure  foundation  to  the  present  day.  He  was  also  one  of  the 
two  largest  individual  contributors  to  the  fund  for  erecting  a  new 
building  when  the  old  was  worn  out,  and  secured  a  fifth  of  its 
cost  from  that  nursing  mother  of  all  the  churches.  Trinity,  New 
York.  His  substantial  interest  in  the  parish  was  unwearied  until 
his  death  in  1827. 

There  are  among  you  those  who  remember  his  distinguished  son, 
who  emulated  him  in  his  work  and  labor  of  love  when  the  present 
Ijrown  stone  building  was  erected.  In  zeal  and  devotion,  in  services 
and  gifts,  he  was  behind  none  who  were  associated  with  him  in  the 
enterprise,  and  who  were  fit  fellow- workers  for  the  common  object 
of  their  piety. 

And  in  the  third  generation  many  of  his  children  and  family 
were  associated  with  you  in  gifts  and  personal  service.  One  of 
them  I  am  sure  you  remember  especially.  She  was  a  saintly  woman, 
who,  with  tireless  activity  for  almost  a  lifetime,  went  in  and  out 
among  you,  herself  still  a  resident  when  the  family  was  scattered, 
the  embodiment  of  the  new  era  in  the  work  the  Church  was  arous- 
ing itself  to  do,  admired,  remembered  and  loved  by  all,  and  who 
extended  the  influence  of  the  parish  throughout  the  new  diocese 
with  an  energy  in  well  doing  that  has  never  subsided.  Miss 
Cornelia  King.  Her  memory  is  still  precious,  and  in  many  hearts 
is  like  a  benediction.  This  is  a  conspicuous  example  of  what  many 
families  have  been  doing  these  two  hundred  years.  Those  gen- 
erations we  may  speak  of,  for  they  are  passed  away ;  but  their 
memorial  is  linked  with  Thy  memorial,  O  Lord,  which  endureth 
from  generation  to  generation. 

No  history  would  be  complete  were  not  reference  made  to  the 
many  memorials  and  gifts  which  beautify  and  adorn  this  loved  fane 
of  worship.  Some  of  those  go  back  to  the  foundations  of  the 
parish,  and  others  are  now  for  the  first  time  put  to  sacred  uses. 
Some  of  the  gifts  have  been  large,  some  small,  but  all  alike  testify 
to  the  devotion  of  those  who,  now  worshipping  no  more  in  the 
earthly  courts  of  the  church  militant,  are  remembered  where  praise 
and  prayer  have  never  ceased  for  more  than  two  centuries,  and 
where  may  God  grant  it  may  continue  from  generation  to  genera- 
tion. 


238  ORIGIN    AND    HISTORY 

But  it  is  more  difficult  at  this  point  to  write  the  record,  for  you 
are  here  and  know  the  struggles  of  both  the  past  and  present.  Yet 
this  may  be  said :  The  work  which  is  completed  and  offered  to  God 
today  with  its  many  loving  gifts  and  beautiful  tokens  of  the  com- 
munion of  saints,  tells  us  how  truly  the  spirit  of  tenderness  and 
affection  for  the  sacred  fane  which  is  God's  memorial,  and  protects 
the  hallowed  graves  of  many  still  remembered,  and  more  whose 
names  have  passed  from  human  annals,  but  are  written  in  the  book 
of  God's  remembrance — survives  and  awakens  to  generous  action 
with  much  self-denial  and  many  sacrifices,  when  new  times  and 
new  needs  call  for  a  helping  hand. 

And  there  is  not  lacking  in  this  fourth  generation,  one  to  come 
with  ready  aid  to  supplement  your  gifts  and  ask  the  privilege  of 
joining  with  you,  although  her  home  is  elsewhere,  to  enable  the 
Church  of  her  love  to  meet  its  needs.  As  is  fitting,  her  work  is  in 
memory  of  beloved  parents.  A  noble  Christian  gentleman  was 
John  A.  King,  whose  connection  with  the  Church  in  which  he  was 
brought  up,  and  which  was  that  of  his  afifection.  is  thus  perpetuated. 
He  took  large  part  in  the  work  of  the  diocese  and  of  the  general 
Church.  Although  in  a  position  to  please  himself  in  all  things,  he 
was  indefatigable  in  missionary,  educational,  and  philanthropic 
enterprises,  to  which  he  contributed  regularly  as  part  of  his  living 
expenses.  A  detailed  account  of  his  many  activities  in  the  church 
would  put  him  in  the  forefront  of  the  honored  laymen  who  are  the 
strength  of  our  ecclesiastical  organization. 

We  may  not  say  more,  save  the  gifts  of  this  day  have  their 
parallel  again  and  again  in  the  history  of  this  Church  and  in  the 
families  which  compose  it.  Side  by  side  in  the  associations  of 
loving  memory  the  stone  cries  out  of  the  wall  and  the  beam  from 
the  timber  answers  it.  Other  churches  richer  in  money  and  power 
in  saintly  memorials  may  well  envy  this  little  church. 

"Thy  memorial,  O  Lord,  endureth  from  generation  to  genera- 
tion." It  is  not  for  a  day,  nor  for  an  age,  nor  for  all  time,  even. 
These  stones  shall  crumble  to  dust,  and  they  who  reared  them  shall 
pass  away  and  leave  no  trace  on  earth ;  but  there  are  silent  voices  in 
the  far-ofT  land  which  utter  knowledge  though  there  be  neither 
speech  nor  language.  When  the  seer,  St.  John  the  Divine,  saw  in 
the  last  days  the  Holy  City,  whose  glory  on  earth  was  the  memorial 
of  God  and  Moriah,  there  was  no  temple  therein,  for  the  Lord  God 


OF    GRACE    CHURCH  239 

Almighty  and  the  Lamb  are  the  temple  of  it.  The  memorial  had 
done  its  work  and  was  become  the  spiritual  house  in  the  hearts  and 
souls  of  the  saints.  Then  was  the  text  fulfilled.  The  natural  had 
passed  into  the  spiritual.  The  Eternal  God  was  the  memorial  of 
Himself  and  those  who  had  served  Him  for  ever  and  ever. 


CHURCH  ACTIVITIES. 

Over  the  consecration  services  the  three  memorial  win- 
dows behind  the  altar  for  the  first  time  shed  their  radiance, 
revealing  in  it  the  command  of  the  Lord  Christ,  ''Go  teach 
all  Nations,"  and  thus  reminding  the  worshippers  of  the 
origin  and  motive  of  Grace  Church  in  the  ministry  of  the 
great  Missionary  Society  that  had  founded  it.  In  the  glory 
of  this  window  the  most  devotional  can  appreciate  the 
spiritual  expression  of  the  features  of  our  Lord  and  His 
Apostles.  The  coloring  avoids  extreme  effects  and  indi- 
vidualizes the  Apostles  while  it  glorifies  the  central  figure 
of  our  Lord.  Their  postures  have,  without  losing  natural- 
ness and  dignity,  overcome  most  effectively  the  difficulties 
arising  from  limited  space  for  so  many  figures.  The  light 
from  the  architectural  tracery  which  surmounts  the  pic- 
tures adds  to  the  perspective  of  the  landscape,  and  brings 
into  distinctness  the  richer  shades  in  the  vestments.  In 
the  principal  figures  no  better  introduction  could  have  been 
made  to  a  series  of  scriptural  scenes  in  the  other  church 
windows,  which  will  perpetuate  the  influence  of  this  beau- 
tiful memorial  gift. 

The  uses  of  the  enlarged  and  beautified  sanctuary  fully 
justified  the  sacrifices  made  for  its  erection.  The  attend- 
ance at  the  Holy  Communion,  and  at  other  offices  of  wor- 
ship was  increased,  the  choral  evensong  was  made  one  of 
the  most  attractive  of  the  Sunday  services  by  the  aid  of  the 
new  organ,  and  on  special  occasions  the  rendering  of 


240  ORIGIN    AND    HISTORY 

cantatas  and  oratorios  and  celebrated  masses,  or  musical 
compositions  of  the  churches  of  Europe  had  never  before 
been  equalled  in  Jamaica.  The  eighth  anniversary  of  the 
organization  of  Grace  Church  choir  was  celebrated  on  the 
evening  of  Ascension  Day,  May  8,  1902.  Six  of  the 
original  leading  voices  took  part  in  it. 

The  Parish  Sunday  School  Guild  increased  to  a  member- 
ship of  ninety-two.  It  held  open  meetings  through  the 
winter,  giving  elaborate  and  instructive  entertainments  of 
tableaux  illustrating  the  peoples,  customs  and  history  of 
America  and  European  nations.  The  other  guilds  also 
united  in  giving  such  exhibitions  in  the  Chapel  for  chari- 
table objects.  The  St.  Cornelia  Guild  had  a  membership 
of  forty-five,  and  the  Daughters  of  the  King,  the  Junior 
Daughters  and  the  Kings  Daughters  were  similarly 
strengthened  in  numbers  and  efficiency. 

The  missionary  activities  of  the  Parish  were  forwarded 
with  new  zest.  The  efforts  to  build  St.  Stephen's  Chapel 
for  the  colored  work  were  aided  by  the  Vestry,  who  do- 
nated the  oak  altar  and  altar  furniture  of  the  former 
sanctuary  of  Grace  Church  and  the  gas  fixtures.  The  altar 
guild  gave  altar  vestments  and  linen,  and  the  congregation 
contributed  $250  to  the  building  expenses.  The  chapel 
was  erected  on  the  property  of  the  Archdeaconry  of 
Queens  and  Nassau,  that  had  been  procured  by  the  rector 
for  this  mission,  on  the  corner  of  Grand  and  North  First 
Streets,  Jamaica.  It  was  under  the  charge  of  Rev.  H.  S. 
McDuffy,  the  energetic  superintendent  of  colored  missions 
in  this  archdeaconry. 

In  October,  1902,  Mr.  J.  B.  French  was  appointed  super- 
intendent of  the  Sunday  School  of  Grace  Church,  and  held 
this  office  during  the  remainder  of  this  rectorship,  giving 
a  painstaking  and  devoted  service  to  the  Sunday  School, 


OF    GRACE    CHURCH  241 

which  grew  in  numbers  and  interest,  and  efficiency  in  the 
instruction  of  the  youth  of  the  congregation.  There  was 
such  variety  and  common  sense  in  his  methods  that 
teachers  and  scholars  responded  with  respect  and  interest 
to  his  efforts.  The  baptisms  and  confirmations  of  mem- 
bers of  the  school  showed  the  churchly  character  of  the 
education  they  received,  and  the  sincere  piety  of  those 
who  undertook  with  superintendent  and  rector  this  labor 
of  love. 

WILLIAM  D.  WOOD,   M.  D. 

The  death  of  Doctor  William  D.  Wood,  Oct.  7,  1903, 
reminded  the  older  members  of  the  parish  of  the  virtues  of 
his  long  and  useful  life  in  this  community.  He  completed 
all  the  years  allotted  to  man  in  his  strength,  yet  at  the  age 
of  eighty-two,  and  during  illness  which  he  could  not  resist, 
he  still  desired  to  live  and  do  good.  He  was  a  faithful  and 
affectionate  husband  and  father,  an  honorable  and  liberal 
citizen,  and  an  assiduous,  considerate  and  charitable  phy- 
sician, successful  in  the  skill  and  judgment  which  he  had 
acquired  in  over  fifty  years  of  practise  in  Jamaica  and 
vicinity. 

His  life  as  a  Christian  and  churchman  was  exemplary  in 
the  highest  degree.  He  did  not  neglect  his  duties  to  the 
Church  and  her  ordinances  because  of  the  duties  or  dis- 
tractions of  his  profession.  Doctor  Wood  was  a  constant 
and  zealous  attendant  at  both  Sunday  services  of  the 
Church,  continuing  such  till  his  last  sickness,  which  began 
in  the  middle  of  August,  made  it  impossible  for  him  to 
leave  his  home.  He  was  a  liberal  supporter  of  the  Church 
and  her  benevolences.  His  memorial  there  is  the  stately 
processional  cross,  borne  before  the  choir,  to  whose  ser- 
vices he  ever  gave  generous  aid. 


242  ORIGIN    AND    HISTORY 

As  Vestryman  he  welcomed  the  members  of  the  Vestry 
in  later  years  to  his  home,  and  encouraged  them  and  the 
rector  in  their  progressive  measures  for  the  enlargement 
and  beautifying  of  Grace  Church  and  a  consistent  admin- 
istration of  its  affairs. 

As  a  friend,  to  his  companions,  he  was  genial  and  true 
hearted,  to  the  poor  and  suffering  he  never  spared  himself 
in  order  to  relieve  their  pain,  or  to  console  them  in  their 
sorrows  and  loneliness. 

To  this  rector  Doctor  Wood  was  ever  helpful  and  sym- 
pathetic, encouraging  by  word  and  deed,  and  always 
staunchly  adhering  to  the  traditions  and  to  the  faith  and 
Church  in  which  he  was  born,  baptized  and  confirmed,  be- 
ing true  to  his  English  parentage.  He  served  the  Lord 
Christ  to  the  last  in  ministering  to  those  who  were  hungry, 
thirsty,  sick  and  in  prison. 

In  the  fall  of  1902  a  window  was  presented  to  the 
Wardens  and  Vestry  of  Grace  Church,  made  by  the  firm 
of  J,  and  R.  Lamb  of  New  York.  Its  subject  was  St.  Paul, 
and  its  stands  on  the  east  side  of  the  church  building,  next 
to  the  St.  Cecelia  window,  memorial  of  Mrs.  Clement  E. 
Gardiner.  It  was  given  as  a  memorial  of  Hon.  Richard 
McCormick,  by  his  widow,  Mrs.  Elizabeth  Thurman 
McCormick. 

He  was  Governor  of  Arizona  in  1866-68,  and  for  two 
terms  represented  the  First  Congressional  District  of  New 
York  in  the  National  House  of  Representatives.  Having 
long  been  a  resident  of  Jamaica,  and  a  member  of  the 
parish  of  Grace  Church,  though  not  a  communicant,  he 
was  accorded  a  burial  in  the  churchyard  and  a  memorial 
in  the  church.  He  was  a  distinguished  citizen,  an  influ- 
ential Congressman  and  as  President  of  the  Long  Island 


OF    GRACE    CHURCH  243 

State  Normal  School  Board  of  Trustees  he  gave  to  that 
institution  an  efficient  administration  of  its  affairs.  A 
man  of  genial  character,  learning  and  good  judgment  of 
men  and  affairs,  he  had  many  staunch  friends.  A  large 
number  of  these,  some  of  them  officials  and  statesmen  of 
high  position,  testified  to  their  esteem  and  honor  by  their 
presence  in  the  services  at  his  residence  and  in  the  church- 
yard. 

In  the  Autumn  of  1902  the  rector  had  a  long  illness, 
which  for  four  months  prevented  him  from  performing  his 
duties.  The  Vestry  supplied  the  church  by  the  ministry 
of  other  clergymen,  and  addressed  to  the  rector  the  follow- 
ing note  of  date  Sept.  30,  1903: 

"We  hereby  express  to  our  beloved  Rector  our  deepest 
sympathy  in  the  time  of  his  enforced  retirement  because 
of  severe  and  painful  illness,  with  the  earnest  hope  that  he 
may  be  speedily  restored  to  his  usual  health  and  permitted 
to  resume  the  duties  of  his  sacred  office. 

JOHN  M.  CRANE,  Committee." 

Rev.  W.  H.  Heigham  took  charge  of  the  services  during 
this  absence. 

The  Christmas  celebrations  by  the  choir  and  the  Sunday 
School  became  special  features  of  the  work  of  the  Church. 
In  the  Sunday  School  the  manger  service  was  inaugurated 
and  the  manger  offerings  given  to  the  Church  Charity 
Foundation.  The  Advent  offerings  for  the  Archdeaconry 
of  Queens  and  Nassau,  were  liberally  increased  each  year. 
The  most  active  workers  in  the  parish  were  found  in  the 
Sunday  School  and  guilds,  more  than  one  hundred  and 
fifty  in  all  of  them,  most  of  whom  vigorously  and  faith- 
fully fulfilled  their  assigned  duties  of  membership.   Among 


244  ORIGIN    AND    HISTORY 

these,  Mrs.  B.  J.  Brenton,  Mrs.  H.  S.  Church,  Mrs.  F.  T. 
Martin,  Miss  Hester  Boyd,  Miss  Alice  C.  Mayer,  Miss 
Isabel  Jackson,  Miss  Bedell,  Mrs.  J.  B.  French,  Miss 
Aymar,  the  Misses  Simonson,  Mrs.  Blanchard,  Mrs.  W.  C. 
Baker,  Miss  Elizabeth  Brenton,  Mrs.  Andreii,  Mrs.  Lothian, 
Mrs.  Higgins,  Mrs.  Hotiman,  Miss  Virginia  Cogswell,  Miss 
Pauline  Cogswell,  Mr.  R.  B.  Mitchell,  Misses  Oborne,  Miss 
Irma  Port,  Miss  Leavenworth,  Mrs.  Charles  Blondel,  Miss 
Cornelias,  Miss  Eirene  Ladd,  Mr.  Charles  Blondel,  were 
each  successful  directors  of  these  activities  in  the  guilds  for 
young  and  older  members  and  in  the  teaching  of  the 
Sunday  School. 

In  1902  Mr.  L.  C.  Buckbee  ended  a  service  of  thirty 
years  as  sexton  of  the  church,  and  was  succeeded  by  S.  S. 
Aymar,  who  remained  during  this  rectorship.  Mr.  Buck- 
bee  continued  to  have  charge  of  the  churchyard  several 
years  longer,  until  followed  by  Mr.  John  L.  Boyd. 

In  1904  the  Parish  Guild  gave  a  public  entertainment 
and  reception  in  the  large  assembly  room  of  the  State 
Normal  School.  It  consisted  of  a  concert  by  the  choir  and 
a  play,  and  the  proceeds  were  added  to  the  fund  for  the 
purchase  of  a  piano. 

The  Archdeaconry  of  Queens  held  a  great  missionary 
meeting  continuing  the  whole  day,  in  Grace  Church,  Jan. 
27,  1904.  Addresses  were  made  by  Bishop  Burgess, 
Bishop  Wells  of  the  diocese  of  Spokane  and  Bishop  J.  J. 
P.  Perry  of  the  diocese  of  Georgia.  Archdeacon  Bryan, 
whose  missionary  activities  and  efficiency  will  ever  be  re- 
membered on  Long  Island,  wrote  of  this  meeting,  'The 
hospitality,  the  large  attendance  and  the  beautiful  services 
all  go  to  mark  the  occasion,  the  day  and  the  place  as  a  red 
letter  day  in  the  history  of  the  Archdeaconry." 


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In  this  year  the  portrait  of  Rev.  Thomas  Colgan,  which 
was  missing  from  all  the  collections  made  of  these  Colonial 
churches,  came  to  light,  and  as  described  in  the  account  of 
Mr.  Colgan's  rectorship,  was  donated  to  Grace  Church  by 
Mrs.  Mary  S.  G.  Mills  of  Connecticut. 

Mrs.  Catherine  Herriman  Codwise,  one  of  the  two  oldest 
members  of  Grace  Church,  died  January  30,  1904,  at  the 
age  of  87.  She  was  vigorous  to  the  last  in  her  faculties. 
Though  her  age  carried  her  far  beyond  two  generations, 
she  maintained  a  lively  interest  in  the  friends  who  clung 
to  her  and  visited  her,  of  the  old  families  of  Jamaica, 
of  which  she  was  a  prominent  representative.  She  desired 
to  know  all  the  events  in  the  church,  parish  and  town,  and 
remembered  clearly  the  former  rectors,  even  before  Doctor 
Johnson,  by  whom  she  was  married  Sept.  15,  1856.  A 
constant  friend  of  the  Sunday  School  and  always  ready  to 
contribute  privately  to  its  needs,  she  was  also  a  constant 
attendant  on  the  services  of  Grace  Church  to  the  last  few 
months  of  her  life.  Her  vigor  was  such  that  she  survived 
all  her  immediate  relatives,  and  the  breaking  up  of  her 
lifelong  home  was  an  interesting  event  to  the  community, 
from  the  collection  of  relics  which  were  disposed  of  at  pub- 
lic sale.  In  later  years  she  retired  from  the  active  life  of 
the  parish,  but  her  tall  and  erect  form  and  cheerful  con- 
versation are  ever  associated  in  the  memories  of  the  older 
people,  with  the  home  that  now  has  been  transformed  to 
a  lively  business  center  in  modern  Jamaica. 

The  Boys'  Club  of  Grace  Church  under  Miss  Mayer's 
direction,  aided  by  others,  was  conducted  for  several 
years  with  great  vigor.  From  time  to  time  it  was  discon- 
tinued. Several  efforts  were  made  to  establish  a  Men's 
Club,  a  Young  Men's  Club  and  a  Chapter  of  the  St.  An- 
drew's Brotherhood,  but  none  of  these  endeavors  met  with 


246  ORIGIN    AND    HISTORY 

any  permanent  success.  During  the  year  1904  the  visit 
of  the  Archbishop  of  Canterbury  led  to  the  hope  of  a 
reunion  of  the  eight  parishes  and  missions  that  have  been 
connected  with  Grace  Church,  as  part  of  its  work  in  the 
limits  of  the  original  parish  of  Jamaica.  The  effort  failed 
from  the  inability  of  the  Archbishop,  who  is  the  head  of 
the  Society  for  the  Propagation  of  the  Gospel,  to  take  all 
the  services  offered  to  him  in  New  York. 

The  years  1903-1904  were  the  most  prosperous  in  this 
rectorship,  in  the  activities  of  the  members  of  the  parish 
and  the  attendance  at  the  church  services.  The  efforts 
were  renewed  to  build  the  Grace  Memorial  Parish  House, 
which  had  been  kept  in  many  ways  before  the  minds  of  the 
people.  It  was  proposed  that  rooms  should  be  named  as 
memorials  of  departed  friends  and  citizens,  and  that 
memorial  tablets  placed  in  the  front  hall  should  contain 
such  names  as  the  donors  desired  to  perpetuate  in  the  his- 
tory of  Grace  Church  and  the  Memorial  House. 

The  Chimes  made  frequent  reference  to  the  project,  and 
the  articles  before  published  were  repeated  in  different 
issues  of  this  Church  paper.  It  was  discussed  in  the  Parish 
Guild  meetings,  in  the  Sunday  School,  and  advocated  in 
the  Vestry. 

JOHN  M.  CRANE'S  DEATH. 

The  death  of  John  M.  Crane,  Esq.,  at  the  end  of  the  year 
1904,  made  the  parish  sensible  of  a  great  loss  to  its  activi- 
ties and  standing  in  the  community.  Mr.  Crane  passed 
away  Dec.  30th,  and  his  funeral  services  were  held  in 
Grace  Church  on  the  afternoon  of  Sunday,  January  1. 
Rev.  George  Williamson  Smith,  D.  D.,  assisted  the  rector 
in  the  conduct  of  the  services,  which  were  attended  largely 


OF    GRACE    CHURCH  247 

by  his  business  associates,  the  members  of  the  Jamaica 
Club,  the  Sunday  School  of  Grace  Church,  and  others  of 
the  citizens  of  Jamaica  who  completely  filled  the  church. 
The  whole  service  was  a  sincere  expression  of  the  respect 
and  love  which  Mr.  Crane  had  won  and  inspired  in  the 
town  of  his  birth,  childhood,  and  mature  life.  Since  1873 
he  had  been  a  Vestryman,  and  since  1884  a  Warden  of 
Grace  Church,  holding  also  the  offices  of  clerk  and  treas- 
urer and  repeatedly  a  delegate  to  the  Diocesan  Convention. 

He  was  eminently  a  liberal  supporter  of  the  Church  and 
a  constant  attendant  and  liberal  contributor,  till  prevented 
by  a  severe  confining  illness  for  three  years  before  his 
death.  Even  then  he  was  often  present  at  the  services 
and  at  Vestry  meetings,  and  he  expressed  deep  interest  in 
the  enlargement  and  improvement  of  Grace  Church,  espe- 
cially in  the  gift  of  the  large  organ  in  memory  of  his  wife. 

A  faithful  friend  of  the  young,  he  desired  that  they 
should  be  attracted  to  the  Church  and  love  her  worship. 
He  expressed  great  anxiety  for  the  building  of  the  Me- 
morial Parish  House,  to  which  he  made  the  first  large 
subscription  of  $1,000. 

Mr.  Crane  was,  from  a  boy,  connected  with  the  National 
Shoe  and  Leather  Bank,  New  York  City,  gradually  rising 
through  various  positions  to  become  head  of  that  institu- 
tion, which  office  he  held  for  nearly  twenty-five  of  the 
fifty-two  years  he  was  in  its  service. 

He  was  brought  up  religiously  by  his  father.  Rev.  Elias 
Crane,  who  was  a  loved  pastor  of  the  Presbyterian  Church 
of  Jamaica.  Soon  after  his  marriage  he  associated  himself 
with  Grace  Church,  and  was  with  his  wife  there  confirmed. 
Mr.  Crane  was  a  citizen  of  whom  Jamaica  was  proud,  for 
with  simple  tastes  and  in  unostentatious  ways  he  was  a 


248  ORIGIN    AND    HISTORY 

friend  to  all  who  sought  him  for  advice  and  help,  and 
respected  by  all  who  served  him.  A  liberal  and  yet  a  just 
man,  a  progressive  citizen,  a  staunch  churchman,  an 
effective  speaker  on  public  affairs,  a  loyal  Republican,  a 
genial  host,  a  faithful  and  affectionate  friend  and  a  devoted 
husband  and  father;  into  all  the  relations  of  life  he  carried 
a  kindly  spirit  and  an  honest  and  manly  character. 


OF    GRACE    CHURCH  249 


CHAPTER  XXIII. 

Church  Finances — Rector  Emeritus. 

While  the  endowment  of  the  Church  was  thus  increasing 
during  this  rectorship  and  also,  as  the  record  shows,  by 
many  bequests,  the  many  necessary  expenses  were  not 
adequately  met  by  the  usual  olTerings  and  pew-rents. 
Again  and  again  the  adoption  of  the  envelope  plan  was 
urged  by  the  rector  on  the  Vestry.  There  was  once  or 
twice  an  indifferent  consent  to  it,  and  measures  taken  to 
bring  it  before  the  congregation.  Printed  envetopes  were 
procured  and  presented,  but  few  responded.  The  year 
1908  the  changes  in  the  Vestry  were  such  that  the  plan 
was  adopted  by  resolution  and  referred  to  a  committee  of 
one  Warden  and  two  Vestrymen  to  carry  it  out.  The 
committee  delayed  action  and  refused  to  complete  the 
arrangement  for  which  they  were  appointed,  and  the  in- 
complete support  of  the  Church  with  increasing  indebted- 
ness was  permitted  to  continue  till  the  close  of  this  rector- 
ship. 

On  Feb.  21,  1907,  Miss  Elizabeth  Brenton,  after  a 
lingering  sickness,  passed  away  to  her  eternal  home.  Her 
life  had  been  spent  from  childhood  in  Jamaica  and  in  the 
home  of  her  brother,  Benjamin  J.  Brenton.  Miss  Brenton 
was  related  in  many  ways  to  the  educational,  charitable, 
social  and  religious  movements  of  the  community.  She 
was  an  earnest  promoter  of  all  these  interests;  a  thought- 
ful and  well-informed  woman,  an  interesting  writer  and 
speaker,  she  exerted  influence  in  larger  circles  than  those 


250  ORIGIN    AND    HISTORY 

of  her  own  town,  and  was  a  valued  member  and  officer  of 
the  Press  Club  of  New  York  City,  and  of  the  Sunshine 
Society,  in  whose  work  she  continued  active  till  her  last 
sickness.  Her  personal  interest  in  the  Altar  Guild  of 
Grace  Church,  in  which  from  its  formation  she  had  been 
the  secretary,  greatly  helped  to  the  efficiency  of  the  Guild 
in  beautifying  the  Church  services.  Many  friends  testified 
to  their  appreciation  of  her  lovable  qualities  and  to  their 
affection  for  her.  Her  regular  attendance  at  Church,  her 
consistent  character  as  a  Christian,  her  intelligent  and 
diffusive  piety,  made  her  an  invaluable  assistant  to  her 
rector.  She  saw  clearly  the  deep  and  spiritual  reasons  for 
her  faith  and  service,  and  urged  these  on  the  Church  mem- 
bership in  her  graceful  reports  of  the  Altar  Guild  work. 
She  is  of  blessed  memory  in  Grace  Church. 

The  Vestry  finally  gave  approval  of  the  effort  to  get 
subscriptions  for  the  Parish  House  and  to  the  building,  if 
it  could  be  erected.  Conditional  subscriptions  by  John 
M.  Crane,  Esq.,  for  $1,000,  Mrs.  S.  S.  Stocking,  Dr.  Geo. 
K.  Meynen,  P.  K.  Meynen  for  $500  each,  and  Mrs.  S.  E. 
Jackson  for  $1,000  were  the  first  to  be  made  after  the  one 
already  given  and  paid  by  Miss  Elizabeth  McFarland  for 
$200,  which  was  the  first  offering  to  this  worthy  object. 
The  Sunday  School  raised  $80  by  collections,  and  the 
amount  of  all  the  gifts  promised  or  paid  was  $4,300  before 
the  rector  resigned.  The  effort  had  been  defeated  by  the 
unwillingness  of  the  Vestry  to  give  it  authority  by  using 
the  parish  funds  or  credit  to  undertake  the  building. 

(The  history  of  its  actual  achievement  belongs  to  the 
rectorship  of  Rev.  Rockland  Tyng  Homans,  under  whose 
energetic  action  aided  by  changes  in  the  parish  and  vestry, 
the  great  work  was  accomplished,  which  stands  to  the 
honor  of  the  rector  and  parish  in  the  years  1912  and  1913. 


TiiK  Rkw  Aktiiuu  Sloan. 


Grace  Memorial  House,   1913. 


OF    GRACE    CHURCH  25 1 

The  general  financial  condition  of  the  Parish  had  vastly 
improved  during  the  years  of  1908  and  1909.  The  sale 
of  the  valuable  lot  in  Trinity  Place,  New  York,  for  which 
negotiations  proceeded  for  two  years  was  accomplished. 
Nearly  ^40,000  was  thus  added  to  the  available  funds  of 
the  Parish.  The  equity  held  by  Grace  Church  in  the 
Reade  Street  property.  New  York,  was  later  on  added  to 
the  endowment  funds,  under  Mr.  Homans'  rectorship,  and 
other  sums  gathered  of  large  amount  to  endow  the  church- 
yard for  its  care  and  improvement.) 

The  burdens  of  seventy  years  of  life  had  been  carried  by 
the  rector,  and  in  1909  he  offered  either  to  resign  his 
rectorship  and  to  be  retired  as  rector  emeritus,  or  asked  for 
the  services  of  a  curate  or  assistant,  to  meet  the  increasing 
demands  of  a  widely  extended  parish,  and  its  rapidly  de- 
veloping population  in  the  center  of  the  Borough  of 
Queens. 

After  two  years  of  deliberation  the  following  action  was 
taken  by  the  Vestry: 

"Grace  Church,  Jamaica, 
Oct.  12,  1909. 

'Mn  accordance  with  the  suggestion  contained  in  a  com- 
munication submitted  by  the  Rector,  of  this  date,  it  was 
regularly  moved  by  Mr.  Brenton  and  duly  seconded,  that 
the  Rev.  Horatio  Oliver  Ladd  be  elected  rector  emeritus 
at  an  annual  salary  of  ^1,200,  payable  monthly,  to  take 
effect  Dec.  1,  1909.  Motion  was  put  by  Warden  Cogs- 
well and  carried. 


252  ORIGIN    AND    HISTORY 

''Jamaica,  Oct.  12,  1909." 
"To  the  Wardens  and  Vestrymen  of  Grace  Church. 
Gentlemen: 

In  accord  with  my  communication  of  same  date,  having 
been  duly  elected  by  you  Rector  Emeritus  from  Dec.  1, 
1909,  I  hereby  resign  as  Rector  of  the  church,  to  take  effect 
on  that  day. 

Respectfully  yours, 

HORATIO  OLIVER  LADD." 

"On  motion  of  Mr.  Brenton  it  was  resolved  that  the 
resignation  of  Doctor  Ladd  as  Rector  be  accepted,  to  take 
effect  December  1st,  1909. 

GILBERT  B.  SAYRES, 
Clerk  of  the  Vestry." 

At  a  regular  meeting  of  the  Vestry  of  Grace  Church, 
Jamaica,  N.  Y.,  held  Oct.  26,  1909,  the  following  resolu- 
tion was  unanimously  adopted: 

"Resolved:  Whereas,  the  Reverend  Doctor  Horatio 
Oliver  Ladd  has  resigned  his  position  as  Rector  of  this 
Parish,  which  place  he  has  held  for  nearly  fourteen  years, 
we  think  it  fitting  to  place  on  record  our  appreciation  of 
his  high  character  as  a  gentleman  and  a  Christian,  and  to 
give  testimony  to  his  excellent  literary  attainments.  His 
benevolence  toward  the  poor,  his  sympathetic  ministra- 
tions to  the  sick  and  distressed,  will  long  hold  him  in 
affectionate  remembrance.  He  leaves  us  with  the  best 
wishes  for  his  welfare  and  our  sincere  hope  for  his  happi- 
ness and  success  in  whatever  field  he  may  select  for  the 
future.  GILBERT  B.  SAYRES, 

Clerk  of  the  Vestry." 

The  rector  closed  his  services  to  the  church  on  Dec.  1, 
1909,  and  went  abroad  with  his  family  for  a  season  of 


OF  GRACE  CHURCH  253 

two  years,  in  which  he  ministered  as  a  licensed  priest  of 
the  Anglican  Church  in  churches  in  England,  and  as  a 
Chaplain  of  the  Society  for  the  Promotion  of  the  Gospel, 
in  Bologna,  Italy. 

He  returned  to  take  up  his  residence  in  Richmond  Hill, 
New  York,  where  his  wife,  Harriett  Vaughan  Abbott  Ladd, 
passed  away  May  12,  1913,  in  her  75th  year,  to  her  eternal 
home.  She  was  survived  by  her  husband,  four  children, 
Lillian  Ladd  Church,  Julia  Eirene  Ladd,  H.  Abbott  Ladd, 
and  Maynard  Ladd,  M.  D.,  of  Boston;  and  four  grand- 
children, Oliver  Alden  and  Elizabeth  Church,  Gabriella  M. 
and  Vernon  Abbott  Ladd. 

In  July,  1909,  there  was  published  in  the  Chimes  a  list 
of  the  communicants  and  confirmed  persons  in  Grace 
Parish,  of  which  the  rector  said,  ''It  has  been  carefully 
gathered  and  often  revised,  yet  it  is  probably  neither 
accurate  nor  complete,  and  the  rector  asks  for  corrections 
in  names,  addresses  and  spelling.  There  should  be  fifty 
more  names  to  correspond  to  the  report  to  the  Diocesan 
Convention  at  Easter,  1909.  But  many  have  now  moved 
away  without  giving  any  notice  whatever,  and  in  most 
cases  these  persons  are  beyond  the  rector's  knowledge.  Of 
the  nearly  four  hundred  names  here  given  nearly  all  have 
been  personally  known  to  the  rector  as  communicants.  It 
is  ten  years  since  the  rector  published  a  similar  list,  none 
having  been  in  existence  when  he  came  into  the  parish 
thirteen  years  ago." 

The  removal  of  the  rector  from  Jamaica  in  the  December 
following  this  publication  of  1909,  prevented  its  further 
revisal  and  completion.  It  is  given  as  a  valuable  historical 
record,  so  far  as  it  goes,  some  changes  in  spelling  or 
address  being  needed  to  be  perfectly  accurate,  but  it  is  a 


254  ORIGIN  AND  HISTORY 

measure  of  the  strengthening  of  the  Church  since  this 
rectorship  began  in  1896. 

A  similar  list  of  the  members  of  the  Parish  was  made 
at  the  same  time,  and  revised  to  May  26,  1909.  It  con- 
tained 275  families  and  heads  of  families,  with  street 
addresses,  and  the  names  and  numbers  of  individual  mem- 
bers of  these  families.  The  total  is  1034  persons  of  all 
ages. 

There  were  registered  during  this  rectorship  of  nearly 
fourteen  years  282  baptisms,  177  confirmations,  113 
marriages,  and  358  deaths  and  interments.  There  were 
68  received  from  other  churches  by  letter. 

The  Vestry  of  Grace  Church,  with  sense  of  the  im- 
portance of  providing  for  an  energetic  and  wise  use  of 
the  enlarged  opportunities  and  funds  of  the  Church,  made 
a  temporary  arrangement,  Dec.  1,  1909,  with  the  Rev. 
Arthur  Sloan  of  Richmond  Hill,  to  minister  in  the  place  of 
a  rector.  Mr.  Sloan  had  recently  resigned  the  chaplaincy 
of  the  Sailors'  Snug  Harbor,  of  Staten  Island,  New  York, 
which  he  had  held  for  seventeen  years.  He  had  previously 
been  rector  of  the  Church  of  the  Resurrection  at  Richmond 
Hill  for  a  year  and  a  half,  and  had  returned  with  his  family 
on  his  retirement  from  the  chaplaincy  to  take  up  his  resi- 
dence there.  He  conducted  the  services  of  Grace  Church 
with  such  ability  and  good  judgment  that  he  was  con- 
tinued in  charge  of  the  Chapel  at  Dunton  in  the  parish 
after  the  election,  March  15,  1910,  of  the  Rev.  Rockland 
Tyng  Homans,  assistant  minister  of  the  Church  of  the 
Incarnation  in  New  York,  to  the  rectorship  of  Grace 
Church,  who  began  his  ministry  May  1,  1910.  Rev.  Mr. 
Sloan  died  suddenly  about  a  year  after  this  in  Richmond 
Hill  (during  the  night  of  Oct.  2,  1911),  having  the  same 
evening  made  an  impressive  address  to  the  Men's  Club 
of  Grace  Church,  on  the  ending  of  life. 


Rev.  Rockland  Tyng  Homaxs. 


VI 

THE  CHARTER  OF  GRACE 

CHURCH. 


OF    GRACE    CHURCH  257 


CHARTER  FOR  GRACE  CHURCH  AT  JAMAICA,  IN 
QUEENS  COUNTY  ON  NASSAU  ISLAND. 

GEORGE  the  Third  by  the  grace  of  God  of  Great  Britain, 
France  and  Ireland,  King  Defender  of  the  Faith  and  so  forth,  to 
ALL  to  whom  these  presents  shall  come  Greeting;  Whereas  our 
loving  subjects  Samuel  Seabury  junior,  the  present  Rector  of  the 
parish  of  Jamaica,  Robert  Howel,  Benjamin  Carpenter,  John 
Hutchins,  John  Smith,  Jacob  Ogden,  Joseph  Olfield,  Joseph  Olfield 
junior,  John  Troup,  John  Comts,  Gilbert  Cowes,  Thomas  Truxtum, 
Thomas  Braint,  Benjamin  Whitehead,  Samuel  Smith,  William 
Sherlock,  John  Tunes,  Richard  Betts,  Isaac  Vanhoef,  Thomas 
Lointhman,  Adam  Lawrence,  inhabitants  of  the  said  parish  and 
township  of  Jamaica  in  Queens  County  in  communion  of  the 
Church  of  England  as  by  law  established,  by  their  humble  petition 
presented  to  our  trusty  and  well  beloved  Cadwallader  Golden 
Esquire,  president  of  our  Council  and  Commander  in  chief  of  our 
Province  of  New  York  and  the  territories  depending  thereon  in 
America  in  council  on  the  27th  day  of  May  last  past  did  set  forth 
that  the  inhabitants  of  the  said  township  of  Jamaica  in  communion 
of  the  Church  of  England  as  by  law  established  had  by  voluntary 
contributions  erected  and  finished  a  decent  and  convenient  church 
in  the  said  township  of  Jamaica  for  the  celebration  of  divine  service 
according  to  the  rites  and  ceremonies  of  the  Church  of  England : 
But  that  from  a  want  of  some  persons  legally  authorized  to  super- 
intend the  same  and  manage  the  affairs  and  interests  thereof  the 
said  church  was  greatly  delayed  and  the  petitioners  discouraged 
from  contributing  to  the  repairs  thereof  least  the  monies  given  for 
that  pwrpose  might  be  misapplied  and  that  on  that  account  also 
charitable  and  well  disposed  people  were  discouraged  in  their  de- 
sign to  establish  proper  funds  for  the  future  support  of  the  said 
church  and  the  better  maintenance  of  its  ministry.  The  petitioners 
therefore  humbly  prayed  our  Royal  Charter  incorporating  such 
persons  with  such  rights,  privileges  and  immunities  as  should  ap- 
pear proper  and  expedient  to  answer  the  purposes  aforesaid. 
Which  petition  having  been  then  and  there  read  and  considered  of 
our  said  Council  did  afterwards  on  the  same  day  humbly  advise  our 


258  ORIGIN    AND    HISTORY 

said  President  to  grant  the  prayer  thereof.  Whereof  we  being  will- 
ing to  give  all  due  encouragement  to  the  pious  intentions  of  our  said 
subjects  and  to  grant  this  their  reasonable  request  KNOW  YE 
that  we  of  our  especial  grace  and  certain  knowledge  and  meer  mo- 
tion have  made,  ordained,  constituted,  granted  and  declared,  and 
by  these  presents  for  us,  our  heirs  and  successors  do  make,  ordain, 
constitute,  grant  and  declare  that  tiie  said  petitioners  and  the  rest 
of  the  inhabitants  of  said  Parish  and  Township  of  Jamaica  in  com- 
munion of  the  Church  of  England  as  by  law  established  be  apd 
their  successors  the  Rector  and  inhabitants  of  the  said  Parish  and 
Township  of  Jamaica  in  communion  as  aforesaid  for  the  time  being, 
for  from  time  to  time,  and  at  all  times  for  ever  hereafter,  a  body 
corporate  and  politic  in  deed,  fact  and  name,  by  the  name  and  stile 
of  the  Rector  and  inhabitants  of  the  Parish  and  Township  of 
Jamaica  in  Queens  County  in  communion  of  the  Church  of  England 
as  by  law  established,  and  they  and  their  successors  the  Rector  and 
inhabitants  of  the  said  Parish  and  Township  of  Jamaica  in  com- 
munion of  the  Church  of  England  as  by  law  established  one  body 
politic  and  corporate  in  deed,  fact  and  name,  really  and  fully,  we 
do  for  us,  our  heirs  and  successors  order,  make,  constitute,  declare 
and  create  by  these  presents,  and  that  by  the  same  name  they  and 
their  successors  the  Rector  and  inhabitants  of  the  said  Parish  and 
Township  of  Jamaica  in  communion  of  the  Church  of  England  as 
by  law  established  for  the  time  being  shall  and  may  have  perpetual 
succession  and  shall  and  may  be  responsible  and  capable  in  the  law 
to  sue  and  be  sued,  to  implead  and  be  impleaded,  to  answer  and  be 
answered  unto,  to  defend  and  be  defended,  in  all  courts  and  else- 
where in  all  and  singular  suits,  causes,  quarrels,  matters,  actions 
demands  and  things  of  what  nature  or  kind  soever.  And  also  that 
they  their  successors  by  the  same  name  be  and  shall  be  for  ever 
hereafter  capable  and  able  in  the  law  to  take,  accept  and  acquire, 
purchase,  receive,  have,  hold  and  enjoy  in  fee  for  ever,  for  life 
or  lives,  or  for  years,  or  in  any  other  manner  any  messuages,  build- 
ings, houses,  lands,  tenements,  hereditaments  and  real  estate,  and 
the  same  to  lease,  or  demise  for  one  or  more  years  to  grant,  alien, 
bargain,  sell  and  dispose  of,  for  life  or  lives,  or  for  ever,  under  cer- 
tain yearly  rents :  And  also  to  accept  of,  take,  possess,  and  purchase 
any  goods,  chattels  or  personal  estate  and  the  same  to  hire,  let,  sell 
or  dispose  of  at  their  will  and  pleasure  as  fully  as  any  other  cor- 
poration or  body  politic  within  that  part  of  our  Kingdom  of  Great 


Oi 


The  Royal  Charter  oe  Grace  Church. 


OF    GRACE    CHURCH  259 

Britain  called  England,  or  in  our  Province  of  New  York  may  law- 
fully do.  Provided  that  such  messuages  and  real  estate  as  they 
or  their  successors  shall  have  or  may  be  entitled  unto  shall  not  at 
anyone  time  exceed  the  actual  value  of  Five  Hundred  Pounds  cur- 
rent money  of  our  said  Province  over  and  above  the  said  Church 
and  the  ground  on  which  the  same  stands  and  the  cemetery  afore- 
said: and  further  we  will  and  ordain  and  by  these  presents  for  us, 
our  heirs  and  successors  do  declare  and  appoint  that  for  the  better 
ordering  and  managing  the  affairs  and  business  of  the  said  corpora- 
tion there  shall  be  one  Rector  of  the  Church  of  England  as  by  law 
established,  duly  qualified  for  the  care  of  souls,  two  church  wardens 
and  eight  vestrymen  from  time  to  time  constituted,  elected  and 
chosen  for  the  said  Church  in  manner  and  form  as  is  hereafter  in 
these  presents  expressed,  which  Rector  and  Church  wardens, 
or  any  two  of  them,  together  with  the  Vestrymen,  or  the 
major  part  of  them  for  the  time  being,  shall  have  and  are 
hereby  invested  with  full  power  and  authority  to  dispose,  order 
and  govern  the  general  business  and  affairs  of  and  concerning 
the  said  Church  called  Grace  Church,  and  all  such  lands,  tene- 
ments, hereditaments,  real  and  personal  estate,  as  shall  or  may 
be  purchased  or  acquired  for  the  use  thereof  as  aforesaid,  and 
further  we  will  and  grant  that  the  said  Rector  and  inhabitants 
of  the  Parish  and  township  of  Jamaica  in  Queens  County,  in 
communion  of  the  Church  of  England  as  by  law  established, 
and  their  successors,  shall  and  will  for  ever  hereafter  have  a 
common  seal  to  serve  and  use  for  all  matters,  causes,  things 
and  affairs  whatsoever  of  them  and  their  successors,  and  full 
power  and  authority  to  break,  alter,  change  and  new  make  the 
same  or  any  other  common  seal  from  time  to  time  at  their  free 
will  and  pleasure  as  they  shall  see  fit. 

AND  for  the  better  execution  of  our  Royal  Will  and  pleasure 
herein,  we  do  assign,  constitute  and  appoint  the  said  Samuel 
Smith  Junior  and  John  Troup  to  be  the  present  Church 
Wardens  and  the  said  Benjamin  Whitehead,  Thomas  Betts, 
Jacob  Ogden,  Thomas  Braint,  Richard  Betts,  William  Sher- 
lock, John  Comts  and  Thomas  Lointman  to  be  present  Vestry- 
men of  the  said  Church  and  to  hold  and  enjoy  their  several 
offices  until  the  first  Tuesday  in  Easter  week  next  ensuing* 
and  no  longer.  AND  FURTHER  our  will  and  pleasure  is 
and  we  do  for  us,  our  heirs  and  successors  establish,  appoint 


260  ORIGIN    AND    HISTORY 

and  direct  that  on  the  said  first  Tuesday  in  Easter  week  ensn- 
ing,  and  once  in  every  year  forever  thereafter  on  Tuesday  in 
Easter  Week,  in  every  year,  at  the  said  Church  the  inhabitants 
of  the  said  Parish  and  Township  of  Jamaica  in  Queens  County 
in  communion  of  the  Church  of  England  as  by  law  established 
for  the  time  being,  or  the  major  part  of  them,  then  and  there 
assembled,  shall  elect,  chuse  and  appoint  two  of  their  members 
Church  Wardens  and  eight  others  of  their  members  to  be 
Vestrymen  of  the  said  Church  for  the  ensuing  year,  which 
Church  Wardens  and  Vestrymen  so  to  be  chosen  and  appointed 
shall  immediately  enter  upon  their  respective  offices  and  hold 
and  exercise  the  same  for  and  during  the  term  of  one  whole 
year  from  the  time  of  such  elections  respectively  or  until  other 
fit  persons  shall  be  elected  in  their  respective  places:  AND 
we  do  ordain  and  declare  that  as  such  the  church  wardens 
and  vestrymen  by  these  presents  nominated  and  constituted 
as  such  as  shall  from  time  to  time  hereafter  be  elected  and 
appointed  shall  have  and  they  are  hereby  invested  with  full 
power  and  authority  to  execute  and  perform  their  several  and 
respective  offices  in  as  full  and  ample  manner  as  any  church 
wardens  or  vestrymen  in  that  part  of  our  Kingdom  of  Great 
Britain  called  England  or  in  our  Province  of  New  York  have 
or  lawfully  may  or  can  do.  AND  if  it  shall  happen  that  an-y 
or  either  of  the  Church  Wardens  or  Vestrymen  by  these  pres- 
ents named  and  appointed,  or  hereafter  to  be  elected  and  chosen, 
shall  dye  or  remove  from  the  said  Parish  and  Township  or 
refuse  or  neglect  to  officiate  in  the  said  respective  offices  be- 
fore their  or  either  of  their  appointed  time  of  service  therein 
be  expired  then  and  in  every  such  case  it  shall  and  may  be  law- 
full  to  and  for  the  said  Rector  and  inhabitants  of  the  said  Parish 
and  Township  of  Jamaica  in  Queens  County  in  communion  of 
the  Church  of  England  as  by  law  established  for  the  time  being 
or  the  major  part  of  such  them  as  shall  assemble  together  for 
that  purpose  at  the  said  Church  at  some  day  within  a  month 
next  after  such  death,  removal,  refusal  or  neglect,  to  be  ap- 
pointed by  the  Rector  and  Church  Wardens  for  the  time  being, 
or  any  two  of  them,  to  proceed  in  manner  aforesaid  and  make 
a  new  election  and  appointment  of  one  or  more  of  their  mem- 
bers for  the  time  being  to  supply  the  room  or  place  of  such" 
person  or  persons  so  dying,  removing,  refusing  or  neglecting 


OF    GRACE    CHURCH  261 

to  act  in  his  or  their  respective  office  and  offices  as  aforesaid 
and  so  often  as  shall  be  needfull  and  requisite.  AND  for  the 
due  and  orderly  conduct  and  carrying  on  the  respective  elec- 
tions of  Church  Wardens  and  Vestrymen,  by  these  presents 
established  and  ordained,  our  Will  and  pleasure  is  and  we  do 
declare  and  direct  that  the  Rector  of  the  said  Church  for  the 
time  being  shall  give  publick  notice  thereof  from  time  to  time, 
as  they  become  necessary  and  are  hereby  appointed,  by  pub- 
lishing the  same  at  the  said  Church  immediately  after  divine 
service  on  the  Sunday  next  preceeding  the  day  appointed  for 
such  election.  AND  further  we  do  will  and  by  these  presents 
for  us  our  heirs  and  successors  ordain,  appoint  and  direct  that 
the  Rector  and  Church  Wardens  of  the  said  Church  for  the 
time  being,  or  any  two  of  them,  shall  and  may  from  time  to 
time,  upon  all  occasions  assemble  and  call  together  the  said 
Rector,  Church  Wardens  and  Vestrymen  for  the  time  being,  or 
the  greater  number  of  them,  the  said  Vestrymen  with  said 
Rector  and  Church  Wardens,  or  any  two  of  them,  together 
with  the  said  Vestrymen,  or  the  major  part  of  them,  shall  be 
and  by  these  presents  are  authorized  and  empowered  to  consult, 
advise  and  consider  and  by  a  majority  of  votes  to  do,  direct, 
manage,  transact  and  carry  on  the  interest  and  business  and  af- 
fairs of  the  said  Church  and  to  hold  vestries  for  that  purpose 
AND  we  do  further  give  and  grant  unto  the  said  Rector  and 
inhabitants  of  the  said  Parish  and  Township  of  Jamaica  in 
Queens  County  in  communion  of  the  Church  of  England  as 
by  law  established  and  to  their  successors  forever  that  the 
Rector  and  Church  Wardens  of  the  said  Church  for  the 

time  being,  or  any  two  of  them,  together  with 
the  Vestrymen  of  the  said  Church  for  the  time  being,  or  the 
major  part  of  them,  in  Vestry  assembled  shall  have  full  power 
and  authority  from  time  to  time  and  at  all  times  hereafter  to 
make,  ordain  and  constitute  such  rites,  orders  and  ordinances 
for  the  good  disciplin'e  and  government  of  the  members  of 
the  said  Church  and  corporation  and  the  interests  thereof  as 
they  or  the  major  part  of  them  shall  think  fit  and  necessary 
so  as  such  rules,  orders  and  ordinances  be  not  repugnant  to 
the  laws  of  that  part  of  our  Kingdom  of  Great  Britain  called 
England  or  in  this  our  Province  of  New  York,  but  as  only  as 
may  be  agreeable  thereto,  which  rules,  orders  and  ordinances 


262  ORIGIN    AND    HISTORY 

shall  be  from  time  to  time  fairly  entered  in  a  book  or  books 
to  be  kept  for  that  purpose  AND  further  our  will  and  pleasure 
is  that  it  shall  and  may  be  lawfull  for  the  Rector  and  Church 
Wardens  of  the  said  Church,  or  any  two  of  them,  and  the  said 
Vestrymen  or  the  major  part  of  them,  at  the  vestry  to  nomi- 
nate and  appoint  a  clerk  and  sexton  or  bellringer  for  the  said 
Church,  and  also  a  clerk  and  messenger  to  serve  the  vestry  at 
their  meetings  and  such  other  under  officers  as  they  shall  stand 
in   need  of.   to   remain   in   their   respective   offices   so   long  as   the 
said    Rector,    Church    Wardens    and    Vestrymen    for    the    time 
being,  or  the  major  part  of  them,  shall  think  fit  and  appoint. 
AND   further  we  do   for  us  our  heirs   and   successors  declare 
and   grant    that   the    patronage,    advowson,    donations   or    pre- 
sentations of  and  to  the  said  Church  shall  appertain  and  belong 
to  and  is  hereby  invested  in  the  Church  Wardens  and  Vestry- 
men of  the  said  Church  for  the  time  being  and  their  successors 
for  ever  or  the  major  part  of  them,  where  of  one  church  warden 
shall  always  be  one.     AND  further  KNOW  YE  that  we  of  our 
especial  grace  certain  knowledge  and  meer  motion  have  given, 
granted,  ratified  and  confirmed,  by  these  presents  do  for  us  our 
heirs  and  successors  give,  grant,  ratify  and  confirm   unto  the 
said    Rector   and   inhabitants   of   the    Parish    and   Township   of 
Jamaica   in   Queens   County   in   communion   of   the    Church   of 
England  as  by  law  established,  and  their  successors  for  ever, 
ALL   that   the   said   Church   and   grounds   on    which   the   same 
stands,  and  the  cemetery  belonging  to  the  same,  containing  in 
the   whole   about   half  an   acre   To   have   and   to   hold   all   and' 
singular   the   premises   aforesaid   with   the   appurtenances   unto 
them  the  said  Rector  and  inhabitants  of  the  Parish  and  Town 
ship  of  Jamaica  in  Queens  County  in  communion  of  the  Church 
of  England  as  by  law  established  and  their  successors  to  their 
only  proper  use  and  behoof  forever.     To  be  holden  of  us,  our 
heirs  and  successors  in  free  and  common  socage  as  of  manor 
in  East  Greenwich  in  the  County  of  Kent  within  that  part  of 
our  Kingdom  of  Great  Britain  called   England.     Yielding,  ren- 
dering and   paying   therefore   unto   us,   our   heirs   and   successors 
yearly  and  every  year  forever  on  the  feast  day  of  Annuncia- 
tion  of  the   Blessed   Virgin    Mary   at  our   City   of   New   York 
unto  our  or  their  Receiver  General   there   for   the   time  being 
an   annual   rent  of  one  pepper  corn   if  demanded   in   lieu   and 
stead  of  all  other  rents,  duties,  services,  claims,  and  demands 


OF    GRACE    CHURCH  263 

whatsoever  for  the  premises.  And  lastly  we  do  for  us,  our  heirs 
and  successors  ordain  and  grant  unto  the  said  Rector  and  in- 
habitants of  the  Parish  and  Township  of  Jamaica  in  Queens 
County  in  communion  of  the  Church  of  England  as  by  law 
established,  and  their  successors,  by  these  presents  that  this  our 
grant  shall  be  firm,  good,  effectual  and  available  in  all  things 
in  the  laws  to  all  intents,  constitutions  and  purposes  whatso- 
ever according  to  our  best  intents  and  meaning  herein  before 
declared  and  shall  be  construed,  reputed  and  adjudged  in  all 
cases  and  causes  most  favorably  on  the  behalf  and  for  the  best 
benefit  and  advantage  of  the  said  Rector  and  inhabitants  of 
the  Parish  and  Township  of  Jamaica  in  Queens  County  in 
communion  of  the  Church  of  England  as  by  law  established  and 
their  successors  although  express  mention  of  the  yearly  value 
or  certainty  of  the  premises  or  any  of  them  in  these  presents 
is  or  are  not  made  any  matter,  cause  or  thing  to  the  contrary 
thereof  notwithstanding. 

IN  TESTIMONY  WHEREOF  we  have  caused  these  our 
letters  to  be  made  patent  and  the  great  seal  of  our  said  Province 
of  New  York  to  be  hereunto  affixed  and  the  same  to  be  entered 
on  record  in  our  Secretary's  office  of  our  said  Province  in  one 
of  the  books  of  patents  there  remaining. 

WITNESS  our  said  trusty  and  wellbeloved  Cadwallader 
Colden,  Esquire,  President  of  our  Council  and  Commander-in- 
Chief  of  our  Province  of  New  York  and  the  territories  depend- 
ing thereon  in  America  at  our  Fort  in  our  said  City  of  New 
York  the  seventeenth  day  of  June  in  the  year  of  our  Lord  one 
thousand  seven  hundred  and  sixty-one  and  of  our  reign  the  first. 

(Second  skin  line  14  the  word  do  interlined  and  line  19  the 
words  part  of  wrote  on  an  erasure, 

Clarke. 

New  York,  Secretary's  Office,  1st  July  1761. 

The  within  letters  patent  or  charters  are  recorded  in  this 
office  in  Liber  Patents  No.  13  Pages  373  to  378. 

Geo.  Banyan,  D.  Secy. 


264  ORIGIN    AND    HISTORY 


AMENDMENTS  TO  THE  CHARTER. 

There  was  an  act  of  the  Legislature  to  amend  the  charter 
of  Grace  Church  in  1793. 

This  amendment  was  to  alter  the  name  (style)  of  the  old 
Corporation  from 

"The  rector  and  inhabitants  of  the  parish  and  township  of 
Jamaica  in  Communion  of  the  Church  of  England,  as  by  law 
established"  to  "the  rector  and  inhabitants  of  the  town  of  Ja- 
maica in  Communion  of  the  Protestant  Episcopal  Church,  &c." 

Residents  of  Jamaica  only  voted  or  were  chose  to  office. 

"In  1842,  on  petition  to  the  Legislature,  the  Charter  of  the 
Church  was  so  amended  that  residents  of  Flushing  and  New- 
town, if  of  full  age,  pewholders  in  Grace  Church,  belonging  to 
it  for  the  last  twelve  months,  or  received  therein  by  baptism, 
confirmation,  or  receiving  the  communion  were  allowed  equal 
rights  thereafter." 


H.  Onderdonk,  "Antiquities  of  Grace  Church,  Jamaica."  p.   119. 


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The  Register  of  Rev.  Thomas  Poyer,  for  Grace, 
George's  and  St.  James'  Churches. 


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VII 

THE 

REGISTER  OF  REV.  JOHN  POYER, 

JULY  22,  1710.  TO  NOV.  28,  1731 


OF    GRACE    CHURCH  267 


LETTER  OF  PERMISSION  TO  PUBLISH  RECORDS. 

February  i,  1913. 

Rev.  Horatio  Oliver  Ladd, 

Rector  Emeritus  Grace  Church. 

Dear  Sir: — 

I  beg  to  inform  you  that  at  a  meeting  of  the  Vestry  of  Grace 
Church,  held  on  the  28th  ult.,  the  following  resolution  was 
adopted : 

"That  permission  be  and  hereby  is  granted  to  the  Rev.  Dr. 
Ladd  to  publish  the  papers  mentioned  in  his  letter  of  January 
28,  1913." 

Very  truly  yours, 

Byron  W.  Baker, 

Clerk  of  the  Vestry. 

Mr.  Foyer's  Register  includes  entries  for  Flushing  and  New- 
town, besides  those  that  were  brought  to  him,  from  remote 
parts  of  Long  Island.  The  original  is  in  the  size  and  shape  of 
a  copy  book,  the  entries  of  baptism  and  marriages  are  in  par- 
allel columns  and  so  pale  as  to  require  a  magnifying  glass  to 
read  them.  A  few  leaves  are  lost;  the  rest  are  in  a  perishable 
condition  and  yellow  with  age. 

This  register  was  first  printed  by  the  kind  permission  of 
Rev.  Edwin  B.  Rice,  rector  in  1883,  in  a  genealogical  magazine. 
It  is  the  only  one  of  Grace  Church  Registers  which  has  been 
before  published.  The  sample  page  in  the  illustrations  shows 
how  unlike  in  form  and  writing  this  is  to  the  others. 

The  Parish  records  from  1732  to  1780,  were  lost  during  the 
rectorship  of  Dr.  Johnson.  They  were  kept  in  a  box  and  may 
have  been  destroyed  in  the  burning  of  the  Church. 


268  ORIGIN    AND    HISTORY 


THE  REGISTER  BOOK  FOR  THE  PARISH  OF  JAMAICA. 

KEPT   nv   THE   REV.    THOMAS    POYER,    RECTOR   FROM    I  JIG  TO    I732. 
PEBSONS    HAPTIz'n.    YE   TIME   VVN    AND    PLACE    WHERE. 

Samuel  ye  Son  of  Samuel  &  Hannah  Smith  July  23,  1710  at 
Jamaica. 

Ruth  ye  Daughter  of  Peter  &  Abigail  White  July  23,  1710  at 
Jamaica. 

Jno  ye  Son  of  Jno  &  Freelove  Burrows  August  27,  1710  at 
Jamaica. 

Richd  ye  Son  of  Thos  &  Mary  Evans  August  13,  17 10  at  New 
Town. 

Deborah  ye  Daughter  of  Jno  &  Rebecca  Smith  of  Sealtauket, 
aged  21,  7ber  7,  1710  at  Jamaica. 

Sarah,  ye  Daughter  of  Samuel  &  Frances  Walker  of  Brookland 
in  King's  County  7ber  7,  17 10  at  Jamaica. 

Robert,  Hester,  Judith,  Susanna,  Jno,  Daniel,  Sons  &  Daughters 
of  Johhathan  &  Judith  Murrail  8ber  i,  17 10  at  New  Town. 
Thos  ye  Son  of   Peter  &  Elizabeth  Quacoe  Sber  29,   1710  at  N. 
Town. 

Augustin  ye  Son  of  Will  &  Mary  Crook  lober  3,  1710  at  Jamaica. 
Abigail  ye  Daughter  of  Thos  Murraile  &  Ann  Glenn  of  N.  Town 
lober  31,  171 1,  at  N.  Town. 

Mary  ye  Daughter  of  Joel  and  Deborah  Burrows  Jan  2.  17 10  at 
Jamaica. 

Daniel  ye  Son  of  Thos  &  Jane  Whitehead.  Feb  14.  1710  at  Ja- 
maica. 

Jonathan  &  Rebecca  ye  Son  &  Daughter  of  James  &  Rebecca  Haz- 
ard of  N.  Town,  Feb  26,  1710  at  New  Town. 
Elizabeth  ye  Daughter  of  Thos  &  Sarah  Willet  April   19.  171 1  at 
Flushing. 

Peter  ye  Son  of  Samuel  &  Katherine  Clowes  Jan  10,  171 1  at 
Jamaica. 

Mary  ye  Daughter  of  Walter  &  Margaret  Jones  April   20,    171 1 
at  Jamaica. 
Elizabeth  &  Marsi,  ye  Daughters  of   Richd  &   Mary  Grego   Mar 

25,  171 1  at  New  Town. 

Johannes  Daniel  ye  Son  of  Augustus  &   Elizabeth   Bernard   Mar 

26,  171 1  at  New  Town 


OF    GRACE    CHURCH  269 

Jemima  ye   Daughter   of   Jno   &   Ruth    Smith   8ber    i8,    171 1,   at 
Jamaica. 

Jno  ye  Son  of  Jno  &  Elinor  Turner  9ber  18,  171 1  at  Jamaica. 
Mary  ye  wife  of  Wm  Fowler  Qber  29,  171 1  at  Flushing. 
Mary  ye  Daughter  of  Wm  &  Mary  Fowler  9ber  29,  171 1  at  Flush- 
ing. 

William  ye  Son  of  Jno  &  Elizabeth  Jackson    lober   16,   171 1   at 
Jamaica. 

Richd  &   Samuel   ye   Sons   of   Richd   &   Marsi    Cornell    Feb.    14, 
1711/12  at  Flushing. 

Deborah  ye  Daughter  of  Joseph  &  Elizabeth  Dean  Feb  14  1711/12 
at  Flushing. 

Daniel   ye    Son   of    Peter   &    Abigail    White,    March   9,    171 1    at 
Jamaica. 

Sarah  ye  Daughter  of  Jeptha  and  Katherine  Lewis  Apr.  13,  1712 
at  New  Town. 

Benjamin  ye  Son  of  Edward  &  Mary   Phillips  Apr.    13,    1712  at 
Newtown. 

Rich  ye  Son  of  Richd  &  Mary  Betts  May  4,  1712  at  Jamaica. 
Samuel   ye   Son   of   Thomas   &   Dinah    Howel    May    18,    1712   at 
Jamaica. 

Catherine  ye  Daughter  of  Robt  &  Abigail  Reade,  May  29,   171 2 
at  Jamaica. 

James  ye  Son  of  Robert  Mijward  &  Elizabeth  Hadlock  June  22, 
1712  at  Jamaica. 

Wm  Hallett  aged  July  9,  171 2  at  Hellgate. 

Joseph  ye  Son  of  Edward  &  Mary  Higby  July  15,  1712,  aged  17 
years  at  Jamaica. 

James  ye  Son  of  Jno  Stevens  and  Rachel  Hugans  July  15,   1712 
at  Jamaica. 

Mary  ye  Daughter  of  Samuel  and  Hannah  Smith  8ber  19,   1712 
at  Jamaica. 

Ruth  ye   Daughter  of   Wm   &   Derica   Woolsey  9ber  2,    171 2   at 
Jamaica. 

Stephen  ye  Son  of  Jno  &   Freelove  Burrows   lober   14,  '1712  aC 
Jamaica. 

Thos  ye  Son  of  Francis  &  Catherine  Sawyer  lober  22,   171 2  at 
Jamaica. 

Francis  ye  Son  of  Jaspar  &  Elizabeth  Francis  lober  28,  1712  at 
Jamaica. 


270  ORIGIN    AND    HISTORY 

Nathan,  Sarah  and  Iday,  ye  children  of  Jno  &  Margaret  Clemens 
lober  31,  1712  at  Flushing. 

Willm,  Jno  Charles,  Bickely,  Sarah,  Jane,  Children  of  Thos  & 
Elizabeth  Whcllin  Jan  i,  17 12  at  Jamaica. 

Thos  ye  Son  of  Joel  &  Deborah  Burrows  Feb  22,  1712  at  Jamaica. 
Sarah  ye  Daughter  of  Thos  &  Margaret  Rattoon  April  16,  1713 
at  Jamaica. 

Johnathan  Whitehead  aged  41  April  18,  1713  at  Jamaica. 
Daniel,   Abigail,   Charity,   Thos    Benjamin,    Sarah,   Deborah,   Sus- 
anna, Children  of  Jonathan  and  Sarah  Whitehead,  April  18,  171 3 
at  Jamaica. 

Robt  ye  Son  of  Jno  &  Hicks,  May  21.  1713  at  Flushing. 

Joseph  Hallett  and  Lydia  his  Wife,  Samuel  Moor  jun  and  Charity 
his  Wife,  Geo.  Hallett,  persons  at  riper  years,  baptized  August 
6,  1713  at  Hellgate. 

Joseph,  Moses,  Mary  and  Wm,  Children  of  the  aforesd  Jo  &  Lydia 
Hallet,  baptiz'd  at  Hell-Gate  August  6,  1713. 

Sarah  ye  Daughter  of  Jacob  &  Mary  Blackwel,  baptiz'd  at  Hell- 
Gate  August  7,  1 71 3. 

Jno  ye  Son  of  Jno  and  Elizabeth  Bartow  7ber  6,  1713  at  Flushing. 
Hannah,  Garret  &  Alice  Furman  8ber  25,  1713  at  Jamaica,  persons 
grown  up  or  at  riper  years. 

Arthur  Smith  7ber  27,  1713  aged  at  Jamaica. 

Susanna,  ye  Daug^hter  of  Peter  Sonmans  &  Elizabeth  Arnold 
8ber  28,  1713  at  Newtown. 

Catherine  ye  Daughter  of  Samuel  and  Catherine  Clowes  lober 
21,  1 713  at  Jamaica. 

Jno  Whellin  aged  Jan  18,  1713  at  Jamaica. 

Wm  West  aged  41,  Jan.  26,  1713  at  Newtown. 
Mary  ye  Daughter  of  James  &  Mary  Dunnalson  April   11,   1714 
at  Jamaica  by  Mr.  Halliday. 

James  &  Sarah,  Negroes  of  Samuel  Clowes  May  23,  1714  at 
Jamaica. 

Catherine  ye  Daughter  of  Jno  &  Elizabeth  Walker  June  5,  1714 
at  Newtown. 

Hannah  ye  Daughter  of  Richd  &  Sarah  Abril,  August  26,  1714 
at  Jamaica. 

Martha  ye  Daughter  of  Jeremiah  &  Martha  Ganong  Jany  19,  1714 
at  Flushing. 
Elizabeth  ye  wife  of  Jno  Bartow  Mar  2,  1714  aged 


OF    GRACE    CHURCH  271 

Frances,  Elizabeth,  Hannah,  Sarah  &  Mary,  Children  of  Jno  & 
Eliz.  Bartow  March  2,  1714  at  Jamaica. 

William  ye  Son  of  Jno  &  Sarah  Whelin,  April  7,  1715  at  Jamaica. 
Thos  ye  Son  of  Josias  and  Isabella  Wiggins,  April  17,  1715  at 
Jamaica 

Mary  ye  Daughter  of  Thos  &  Dinah  Howel  April  23,  1715  at 
Jamaica. 

Jno  ye  Son  of  Jno  &  Margaret  Clemens  July  24,  171 5,  at  Jamaica. 
Catherine  ye  Daughter  of  Francis  &  Sarah  Nicols,  September  18, 
17 1 5  at  Jamaica. 

Sarah,  Phillis  &  Henry,  negroes  of  Thos  &  Frances  Poyer  Sep- 
tember I,  171 5  at  Jamaica. 

Wm.  ye  Son  of  James  Hazard  8ber  22,  171 5  at  Newtown. 
Joseph  ye  Son  of  Samuel  &  Katherine  Clowes  Qber  20,   1715  at 
Jamaica. 

Wm  ye  Son  of  Wm  &  Rachl  Stroud  Jan  22,  1715  at  Jamaica. 
Sarah  ye  wife  of  Jno  Goldin  &  Jno  their  son  Feb  26,  1715/16  at 
Jamaica. 

Elizabeth  ye  Daughter  of  Peter  &  Catherine  Nick  April  3,  1716 
at  Newtown. 

Abigail,  ye  Daughter  of  Arthur  &  Abigail  Smith  Ap.  22,  1716 
at  Jamaica. 

Amy  ye  Daughter  of  Jno  &  Elizabeth  Bartow  June  10,  1716  at 
Jamaica. 

Benjamin  ye  Son  of  Saml  Bayless  &  Goldin  July  26,   1716 

at  Jamaica. 

Margaret  the  Daughter  of  Edward  a  Negro  of  ye  Widow  Maro- 
cin  and  of  Jane  a  negro  of  Mr.  Jno  Tredwell  Aug  19,  1716  at 
Jamaica. 

Henry  ye  Negro  of  Andrew  Van  Alst  7ber  23,  171 5  at  Newtown. 
Catherine  ye  daughter  of  Peter  &  Abigail  White  7ber  30,  17 16  at 
Jamaica. 

Jno  ye  Son  of  Jno  &  Sarah  Whellin  Sber  3,  1716  at  Jamaica. 
Francis  ye  Son  of  Jeptha  and  Catherine  Lewis  Sber  21,  1716  at 
Newtown. 

James  ye  Son  of  Jno  &  Margaret  Clement  Sber  25,  1716  at 
Flushing. 

Jacob  Dean  aged  Jany  7,  1716  at  Jamaica. 

Johanna  ye  Daughter  of  Edward  &  Johanna  Blagg  Jany  17,  1716 
at  Jamaica. 


272  ORIGIN    AND    HISTORY 

Samuel  Dean  and  Saml,  Abraham,  Sarah,  Phebe,  Abigail  and  Cuz- 

ziah  Children  of  Saml  and  PJannah  Dean  Jany  24,  1716  at  Jamaica. 

Jno  Dean  and  Stephen  ye  Son  of  Jno  and  Mary  Dean  Janry  24, 

1716  at  Jamaica. 

Henry  ye  Son  of    Ben:   and   Arianthe  Taylor  March   5,    1716  at 

Jamaica. 

Adam  Lawrence  April  9,  171 7  at  Jamaica. 

Daniel  ye  Son  of  Samuel  and  Hannah  Smith   April   14,    171 7  at 

Jamaica. 

Sarah   ye   Daughter   of    Henry   &  Jane   Negroes   of    Mr.   Andrew 

Van  Alst  June  16,  1717  at  Newtown. 

Jno  ye  Son  of  Richd  &  Mary  Betts  June  i^^,  1717  at  Jamaica. 

Catherine  ye  Wife  of  Ephraim  Goldin  &  Percival  their  son  June 

2,  1717  at  Jamaica. 

Francis  ye   Son   of   Thos   &   Elizabeth   Whellin   July   7.    17 17    at 

Jamaica. 

Sarah  ye  Daughter  of  Jno  &  Elizabeth  Fish  August   11,   1717  at 

Newtown. 

Deborah  the  daughter  of  Saml  &  Catherine  Dean  Septber  i,  1717 

it  Jamaica. 

Richard  Stockton  of  East  Jersey  8ber  21,   1717  aged  22  years  at 

Jamaica. 

Benjamin  ye  Son  of  Joseph  &   Patience  Dean  8ber  27,    1717  at 

Jamaica. 

Catherine  ye  daughter  of   Christopher  &  Ann   Tuly  Jan  5,    1717 

at  Jamaica. 

Leonard   ye    Son   of    Arthur   &   Abigail    Smith    Feb    16,    17 17    at 

Jamaica. 

Matthew  ye  Son  of  Jno  &  Sarah  Goldin  June  29,  1718  at  Jamaica. 

Elizabeth  ye  Wife  &  Mary  ye  Daughter  of  Thos  Umphreys  July 

12,  1718  at  Jamaica. 

Elizabeth   ye   Daughter  of   Thos   &   Eliz :    Umphreys   August    14, 

1718  at  Jamaica. 

Judith  ye  Daughter  of  Simon  &  Sarah  Negroes  of  Thos  &  Frances 

Poyer  Aug  24.  17 18  at  Jamaica. 

Charles  ye  Son  of  Jno  &  Elizabeth  Roe  7ber  7,  1718  at  Jamaica. 

Mary  ye  Daughter  of  Walter  &  Hannah  Harris  7ber  9,   1718  at 

Great  Neck. 

Rachel  ye  Daughter  of  George  &  Reynolds  7ber  14,   1718  at 

Newtown. 


OF    GRACE    CHURCH  273 

Jno  &  Mary,  Children  of  Joseph  &  Rachel  Barton  8ber  19,  17 18 
at  Jamaica. 

Thos  ye  Son  of  the  aforesd  Joseph  by  his  2d  Wife  Abigail  ye 
same  time  &  Place. 

Hester  &  Diana  Negroes  of  Caleb  &  Martha  Heathcote  9ber  2, 
171 8  at  Jamaica. 

Catherina  ye  Daughter  of  Saml  &  Catherine  Clowes  Qber  9,  1718 
at  Jamaica. 

Jemima   the   Daughter   of   William   &   Susanna   Hodger  9ber    15, 
1718  at  Jamaica. 

Elizabeth  the  Daughter  of  Caleb  &   Martha  Heathcote  Jany  25, 
1718  at  Jam. 

Thos   ye    Son   of    Jno    &    Sarah    Whellin    Feby   ye   8th    1718    at 
Jamaica. 

Mary  ye  Daughter  of  Ephraim  &  Katherine  Goldin  Feby  ye  8th 
1718  at  Jamaica. 

Mary  ye  Daughter  of  John  &  Margaret  Clement  Feby  ye   19th, 
1718  at  Flushing. 

Richard,  John,  Solomon,  Mary,  Elizabeth  and  Phebe  Children  of 
Richard  &  Mary  Combs  March  14,  1718  at  Jamaica. 
Benjamin  ye  Son  of  Benjamin  &  Arianthe  Taylor  March  16,  1718 
at  Jamaica. 

Thos  ye  Son  of  Richd  &  Mary  Betts  Ap.  22,  1719  at  Jamaica. 
Deborah  ye  Daughter  of  Adam  &  Sarah  Lawrence  Aug.  9,  1719 
at  Flushing. 

Jno  ye  Son  of  Daniel  &  Hannah  Denton  Aug.    12,   1719  at  Ja- 
maica. 

Ann  ye  Daughter  of  Robert  &  Wells  9ber   i,   1719  at  Ja- 

maica. 

Sarah   ye   Daughter  of   Saml   &   Hannah   Smith  9ber  8,    1719  at 
Jamaica. 

James  ye   Son  of   George   &   Bythia   Reynolds  9ber    15,    1719  at 
Newtown. 

— Ibert  ye  Son  of  —  &  Jane  Nicols  lober  22,  1719  at  Jam. 
Mary   ye   Daughter   of  Jno   &    Catherine   Goodin    lober   20,    1719 
at  Jamaica. 

Mary  ye   Daughter  of    Sam.   &   Cath.    Clowes  gber   21,    1720  at 
Jamaica. 

Catherine  ye   Daughter  of  Gerardus  &   Sarah   Clowes  Janry  8th 
1720  at  Jamaica. 


274  ORIGIN    AND    HISTORY 

John  ye  Son  of  Benjamin  &  Arianthe  Taylor  Jany  29th   1720  at 

Jamaica. 

Eliz.  ye  Daughter  of  Richd  Joy  and  Ann  Tonstal  Mar.  26th  i     2 

at  Jamaica. 

Augustin  ye  Son  of  George  &  Reynolds  June  18,  1721   at 

Newtown. 

Sarah  ye   Daughter  of   Robt  &   Sarah   Willis   August    i    1725   at 

Flushing. 

Ann  ye  Daughter  of  James  &  Mary  Smalshanks  Aug   i    1725  at 

Flushing. 

Ann  ye  Daughter  of  Daniel  &  Elinor  Whitehead  August  6  1725 

at  Jamaica. 

Joseph  Oldfield  ye  Son  of  Thos  &  Sarah  Poyer  7ber  19,   1725  at 

Jamaica. 

Stephen  ye  Son  of  Benjamin  &  Rachel  Wiggins  Febry  20,   1725 

at  Jamaica. 

Jno  &  Sarah  Children  of  Jno  &  Julia   Miller  Feby  20,    1725   at 

Jamaica. 

Wm  ye  Son  of  Guy  &  Elizabeth  Young  Mar  7,  1725  at  Jamaica. 

Wm  ye  Son  of  Robert  &  Wood  Mar  27th  1726  at  Newtown. 

Smith  ye  Son  of  Wm  &  Deborah  Steed  May  8th  1726. 

Lewis  ye  Son  of  Joseph  &  Abigail  Barton.     Do  Do  Do. 

Mary  ye  Daughter  of  Richd  &  Charity  Comes.     Do  Do  Do. 

Thos  ye  Son  of  John  &  Elinor  Hicks  June  19,   1726  at  Jamaica. 

Deborah  ye  Daughter  of  Jno  &  Elizabeth   Willett  July   3d    1726 

at  Jamaica. 

Martha  yc  Daughter  of  Robt  &  Sarah  Willis.  July  31.    1726  at 

Flushing. 

Robt  ye  Son  of  Thos  &  Catherine  Martimore  July  31,    1726  af 

Jamaica. 

Saml  ye  Son  of  Edward  &  Eliz.  Willett  7ber  11,  1726  at  Jamaica. 

Sarah  ye  Daughter  of  John  &  Sarah  Whellin    Do  Do  Do. 

Catherine  ye  Daughter  of  Thos  &  Charity  Brown  7  ber  18,  1726 

at  Jamaica. 

Willett  ye  Son  of  Benjamin  &  Arianthe  Taylor  9ber  6,   1726  at 

Jamaica. 

Elizabeth  ye   Daughter  of   Thos  &   Hannah   Whitehead   9ber   20, 

1726,  at  Jamaica. 

Thos  ye  Son  of  Thos  &  Sarah  Poyer  xber  8,  1726  by  Revnd  Mr 

Jenney  at  Jamaica. 


OF    GRACE    CHURCH  275 

Thos  ye  Son  of  Edward  &  Sarah  Jones  xber  ii,  1726  at  Jamaica. 

Caleb  ye   Son  of   Gershon  &   Mary  Wiggins  xber  26,    1726  aged 

12  years  at  Jamaica. 

Gilbert  ye   Son  of  Adam  &   Lawrence  Janry   5th,    1726  at  great 

Plain. 

Richd  Green  aged  Febry  4,  1726  at  Springfield. 

Daniel  ye  Son  of  Guy  &  Eliza  Youngs  March  20,  1726  at  Jamaica. 

Martha  ye  Wife  of  James  Hazard  and  Bridget  Hallett  April  9, 

1727  at  Newtown. 

Jno  the  Son  of  Gerardus  &  Sarah  Clowes  June  18,  1727  at  Jamaica. 

Gilbert  ye  Son  of  Foster  &  Mary  Waters  Aug  13,  1727  at  Jamaica. 

Susanna  ye  Wife  of  William  Barnet  7ber  19th  1727  at  Jamaica. 

Mary  ye  Daughter  of  Jno  &  Catherine  Bedford  8ber  8th  1727  at 

Jamaica. 

Mary  ye  Daughter  of  James  &  Mary  Smallshanks  8ber  15,   1727 

at  Flushing. 

Benjamin   ye    Son   of   Robert   &   Sarah   Willis  9ber    12,    1727   at, 

Flushing. 

Jno  ye  Son  of  Jno  &  Elizabeth  Walker  9ber  23,  1727  at  Jamaica. 

Danl  ye  Son  of  Daniel  &  Elinor  Whitehead  Jany  7th  1727  at  ye 

Mill. 

Charity  ye  Daughter  of  Wm  &  Deborah  Steed  Jany  21,     1727  at 

Jamaica. 

Hannah  ye  Daughter  of  Thos  &  Catherine  Martimore  Jany  30th 

1727  at  Jamaica. 

Adam,  Benjamin,  Margaret,  Elizabeth  &  Martha  Children  of  Jo. 

and  Elizabeth  Kinley  Feby  9th  1727  at  Springfield. 

Charles  Wright  of  Newtown  &  Ruth  the  Daughter  of  Charles  & 

Ann  Wright  Mar  3,  1727  at  Jamaica. 

Elizabeth  ye  Daughter  of  Benjamin  &  Rachel  Wiggins  March  3, 

1727  at  Jamaica. 

Wm  ye  Son  of  George  &  Furnace  Mar  29,  1727  at  Newtown. 

Hannah  ye  Daughter  of  Saml  &  Murrail  Mar  24,   1727  atf 

Newtown  aged 

Cynthia   ye   Daughter   of   Jno   &   Julia   Miller   Mar  31,    1728   at 

Jamaica. 

Catherine  ye  Daughter  of  Thos  &  Hester  Brown  ye  Same  Day  & 

Place. 

Abraham  ye  Son  of  Aaron  Furman  &  Catherine  Brass  April  16, 

1728  at  Jamaica. 


276  ORIGIN    AND    HISTORY 

Mary  ye  Daughter  of  James  &  Charity  Leonard  May  5th  1728  at 

Jamaica. 

Elizabeth  the  Daughter  of  John  &  EHzabcth  Willett  Do  Do  Do. 

Wm  ye  Son  of  Thos  &  Eliz.  Umphreys  July  14,  1728  at  Jamaica. 

James  ye  Son  of  Pierre  Pool  &  Mary  his  Wife  baptiz'd  same  day. 

Sarah  ye  Daughter  of  Edward  &  Sarah  Jones  July  28th   1728  at 

Jamaica. 

Johanna  ye  Daughter  of  Edward  &  Alette  Willett  Sber  27th  1728 

at  Flushing. 

Hannah  ye  Daughter  of  Thos  &   Hannah   Whitehead   Febry    16, 

1728  at  Jamaica. 

Jno  ye  Son  of  Thos  &  Sarah  Poyer  March  20,  1728  at  Jamaica. 
Thos  ye  Son  of  Jos:  &  Hannah  Sackett  May  11,  1729  at  New- 
town & 

Deborah  ye  Daughter  of  Nathaniel  &  Susannah  Lawrence  at  ye 
same  Time  and  Place. 

Susannah  ye  Wife  of  Nathaniel  Lawrence  July  6th  1729  at  New- 
town. 

Hannah  Kezia  &  Abigail  Daughters  of  Johhalhan  &  Pamel  Mur- 
rel  July  11,  1729  at  Jamaica. 

Elizabeth  ye  Daughter  of  Thos  Brown  &  Catherine  Goodin,  July 
16,  1729  at  Jamaica. 

Cornelia  ye  Daughter  of  James  &  Mary  Smalshanks  Aug  17,  1729 
pr  Mr.  Jenney. 

James  ye  Son  of  James  &  Catherine  Davies  7ber  14,  1729  at 
Flushing. 

Jno  ye  Son  of   Foster  &   ALiry   Waters,   Charity  ye  Daughter  of 
Thos  &  Hester  Brown  &  Sarah  &  Elizabeth  Daughters  of  Wm  & 
Deborah  Steed  8ber  19,  1729  at  Jamaica. 
Helena   ye   Daughter   of    Benjamin   &    Eliza    Whitehead   8ber   20. 

1729  at  Jamaica. 

Jno  ye  Son  of  Thos  &  Cumins  9ber  9,  1729  at  Flushing. 

Sarah  ye  Daughter  of  Jno  &  Elizabeth  W^illett  9ber   16,   1729  at 

Jamaica. 

Sarah  ye  Dauj^hter  of  jno  &   Elizabeth   Willett  Qber   16,    1729  at 

Jamaica. 

Jno  ye  Son  of  Small  &  Bridget  Hallett  &  Lydia  &  Martha  their 

Daughters.     Saml  ye  Son  of  Jno  &  Haimah   Washbourn.     Thos. 

Jacob,    James  &  Saml    Sons  &  Sarah  ye  Daughter  of  Joseph  & 

Lydia  Hallett  &  Nathl  ye  Son  of  Jos  &  Mary  Hallett.     Mary  ye 


OF    GRACE    CHURCH  277 

Daughter  of  Jacob  &  Mary  Blackwell.     Wm,  Saml  &  Jeptha  Sons 
of  Jeptha  &  Catherine  &  EHz.  Dau.  of  Peter  &  Susanna  Jany  7th 

1729  at  Hell-Gate. 

Mary  ye  Daughter  of  Johhathan  &  Parnel  Murrell  Feb  8,   1729 

at  Jamaica. 

Hannah  ye  Negro  of  Joel  &  Deborah  Burroughs  Mar  3,  1729  at 

Jamaica. 

Saml  ye  Son  of  Edw.  &  Sarah  Jones  May  8,  1730  at  Jam. 

Elinor  ye  Daughter  of  Benjn  &  Elizabeth  Whitehead  June  7,  1730 

at  Jamaica. 

Jno  ye   Son  of  Thos   &   Elizabeth   Umphreys   June    10,    1730  at 

Jamaica  aged  27  Y. 

Charity  ye   Daughter   of    Benjamin   &   Rachel   Wiggins   July    19, 

1730  at  Jamaica. 

Thos  ye  Son  of  Richd  &  Charity  Comes  &  Eliza  ye  Daughter  of 

Jno  &  Hannah  Whellin  7ber  13,  1730  at  Jamaica. 

Wm  ye  Son  of  David  &  Jane  McErmy  7ber  2y,  1730  at  Jamaica. 

Jno  ye  Son  of  Foster  &  Mary  Waters  &  Mary  ye  Daughter  of 

Jno  &  Eliza  Bannister  8ber  25,  1730  at  Jamaica. 

Elizabeth  ye  Daughter  of  Thos  &  Catherine  Martimore  Feby  28, 

1730  as  also  Julia  ye  Daughter  of  John  &  Julia  Miller. 

Parnell  ye  Wife  of  Jonan  Murrell  Mar  13,  1730  at  Jamaica. 

Eliza  ye  Daughter  of   Nathaniel   &   Susanna  Lawrence   Mar  21, 

1730  at  Newtown. 

Mary  ye   Daughter   of   Wm   &   Susanna   Row   April   4,    173 1    at 

Flushing. 

Edward  ye  Son  of  Edward  &  Alette  Willett  April  22,   1731   at 

Jamaica. 

The  following  entry  was  copied  by  Henry  Onderdonk,  Jr.,  from 
the  last  leaf  of  Mr.  Foyer's  Sermon: 
1723,  Jan  24.    William  son  of  Henry  &  Rebecca  Lloyd. 
James,   John  Joseph   and   Sarah   children   of   James   and   Martha 
Matthis. 

James  Son  of  Thos.  &  Bathsheba  Everet. 
Wright  Son  of  Abm  &  Sarah  Everet. 
Ann  Daughter  of  Daniel  &  Charity  Madock. 


278  ORIGIN    AND    HISTORY 

THE  REGISTER  BOOK  FOR  THE  PARISH  OF  JAMAICA. 

KEPT  BY   THE  REV.    THOMAS   POYER,   RECTOR   FROM    I/IO  TO    1732. 

Persons  married,  ye  time  wn  &  place  where. 

Thomas  Glenn  &  Mary  Wildey  both  of  Flushing  July  22,  1710  at 
Jamaica,  Licens'd. 

Jno  Weeton  &  Geartea  Nuller  both  of  N.  York  Septber  10,  1710 
at  Jamaica,  licens'd. 

Samuel  Mills  &  Abigail  Smith,  both  of  Jamaica   lober   11,   1710 
at  Jamaica,  published. 

Nathan  Silleck  of  Stanford  &  Mary  Sands  of  Hempstead   lober 
13,  1710  at  Cow  Neck,  licens'd. 

Ben:  Moore  &  Hannah  Sackett  both  of  New  Town  lOber  27,  1710 
ber  at  New  Town,  publish'd. 

Lewis  Hulet  of  Hempstead  &  Grace  Hallet  Of  N.  Town  at  Ja- 
maica, Jan  18,  1710. 
Jno  Sipkins  of  N.  York  &  Deborah  Alsop  of  N.  Town  Feb.   18, 

1710  at  Jamaica,  licens'd. 

Richard  Betts  of  N.  Town  &  Mary  Creed  of  Jamaica  April   10, 

171 1  at  Jamaica,  licens'd. 

Daniel  Wright  &  Eliphant  Townsend,  both  of  Oysterbay  May  5th 

171 1  at  Jamaica  licens'd. 

Jacob  Blackwal  &  Mary  Hallet  both  of  N.  Town   May    10,   171 1 

at  Hell-Gate,  licens'd. 

Theophilus  Ketcham  &  Eliz.   Reeker  both  of   N.  Town  May   10, 

171 1  at  Hell-Gate,  licens'd. 

Daniel   Phillips  &   Catherine   Kimball   May   21.    171 1    at  Jamaica. 

publish'd. 

Daniel  Stephenson  of  N.  Town  &  Eliz.  W'illet  of   Flushing  May 

24,  171 1  at  Flushing,  licens'd. 

Joseph  Dean  of  Jamaica  &   Eliz.   Cornhill   of   Flushing  June  21, 

171 1  at  Jamaica,  publish'd. 

Henry   Dusenbury   of    Hampstead   &    Mary    Fowler   of    Flushing 

9ber  29,  171 1  at  Flushing,  publish'd. 

Wm  West  of  New  Town  &  Martha  Furman  of  Jamaica  lober  21. 

171 1  at  Jamaica,  publish'd. 

Wm  Woolsey  &  Derica  Williamson  of  Jamaica  at  Jamaica  Jany 

4,  171 1  publish'd. 


OF    GRACE    CHURCH  279 

James  Dunnalson  &  Mary  Dizart  May  21,  1712  at  Jamaica,  licens'd. 
Francis  Croxon  &  Sarah  Whelin  8ber  13,  1712  at  Jamaica,  pub- 
lish'd. 

James  Tolman  &  Abigail  Hicks  of  Flushing  8ber  27,  17 12  at 
Jamaica,  licens'd. 

Wm.  Robenson  of  Woodbridge  in  ye  East  Jersey  &  Deborah  Law- 
rence of  Flushing  gber  7,  171 1  at  Jamaica,  licens'd. 

The  four  entries  following  were  copied  by  Mr.  Onderdonk  from 
a  loose  piece  of  paper  in  Mr.  Foyer's  writing: 

1724  May  10.  At  Newtown  Edward  Son  of  John  &  Mary  Green- 
oak.    At  Jamaica  Edward  Son  of  Edward  &  Phebe  Cox. 

1725  Mar.  28th  At  Jamaica  William  Son  of  Johh  &  Elinor  Hicks. 
I  stood  surety. 

1725  Ap.  21.  At  Jamaica  Mary  Daughter  of  Foster  &  Mary 
Waters. 

1725  May  9  at  Jamaica  Mary  Daughter  of  Thos  &  —  Stringham. 
Joseph  ye  Son  of  Joseph  &  Hallett  April  25,  1731  at  New- 

town. 

Wm  Son  of  Jem  &  Mary  Creed    Do  25     Do  at  Do. 
Moses  ye  Son  of  Moses  &        Hallett     Do  25     Do  at  Do. 
Thos  ye  Son  of  Obadiah  &  Elizabeth  Kinksman  May  21,  173 1  at 
Flushing. 

Richard  ye  Son  of  Joseph  &  Mary  Hallett  July  25.  1731,  at  New- 
town. 

Edwd  &  Nicolas  ye  Sons  of  George  &  Catherine  Reynolds  August 
28,  173T  at  Jamaica. 

Mary  ye  Daughter  of   Charles  &  Charity  Hicks    (formerly)    now 
Doughty  a  Person  of  riper  Years  7ber  13,  173 1  at  Jamaica. 
Zachariah  ye  Son  of  Zachariah  &  Hester  Allen  8ber   i,   1731   at 
Jamaica. 

Jno  ye  Son  of  Jno  &  Catherine  Bedford  8ber  16,  173 1  at  Jamaica. 
Elizabeth  ye  Daughter  of  Jno  &  Mungers  8ber  17,  173 1   at 

Newtown. 

Lucretia  Martise  a  free  Negro- Woman  &  her  Daughters  Helena, 
Rachel  &  Sarah  gber  11,  1731  at  Jamaica. 

Mary  ye  Daughter  of  Benjamin  &  Hannah  Moor  Qber  14,  1731 
at  Newtown,  a  grown  Person. 

Sarah  ye  Daughter  of  Thos  &  Sarah  Poyer  xber  2,  1731  & 
Gloriana  ye  Daughter  of  Jno  Cornell  &  Charity  Doughty  Do  Do 
Do  at  Jamaica. 


280  ORIGIN    AND    HISTORY 

James  Flower  of  Hempstead  &  Rebecca  Stilwel  of  Jamaica  Qber 
15,  1712  at  Jamaica. 

VVm.  Stroud  &  Rachel  Hugins  of  Jamaica  lober  2,  1712  at  Jamaica, 
published. 

Jno  Tolman  &.  Jane  Hedger  of  Flushing  lober  11,  1712  at  Ja- 
maica, licens'd. 

Thos  Cornell  of  Hempstead  &  Charity  Hicks  of  Flushinc:  lober 
20.   17 1 2  at  Flushing;-,  licens'd. 

Richd   Cornel  &   Miriam   Mott  of   Hempstead   Feb  8,    17 12   with 
Certificate  from  Mr.  Thomas  Rectr  of  ye  Parish. 
Wm.  Hartshorn  of  New  Jersey  &  Helena  Willet  of  Flushing  May 
I,  1713  at  Flushing,  licens'd. 

Abraham  Willet  &  Susanna  Stephenson  of  Flushing  May  i,  1713 
at  Flushing,  licens'd. 

Richd  Everet  of  Foster's  Meadow  in  ye  Parish  of  Hempstead  & 
Sarah  Rushmore  of  Flushing  June  10,  1713  published. 
Nicholas  Lambert  and  Jane  Cockifa  of  this  Prsh,  July  2y.   17 13 
at  Jamaica,  publish'd. 

David  Scot  and  Elizabeth  Darcee  Feb.  22,  171 3  at  Flushing,  pub- 
lish'd. 

Jno  Foster  and  Elizabeth  Smith  Feb  23,  1713  at  Jamaica,  publish'd. 
Joshua  Edwards  &  Elizabeth  Hadlock  March  11,  1713  at  Jamaica, 
licens'd. 

George  Ogilvic  &  Mary  Arnold  April  22,  1714  at  Jamaica,  publish'd. 
Benjamin  Taylor  &  Arianthe  Garrason  May  26,  1714  at  Jamaica, 
licens'd. 

Isaac  Vanhook  &  Catherine  Hanson  June  27,  1714  at  Jamaica, 
publish'd. 

John  Cornell  &  Elizabeth  Gardiner  Octber  3.  1714  at  Jamaica, 
licens'd. 

Benjamin  Fowler  of  ys  Prsh  &  Hannah  Dusenburie  of  ye  Prsh 
of  Hempstead  Nov  i,  1714  at  Jamaica,  publish'd. 
Thcophilus   Phillips  of   Flopewell   East  Jersey   &   Elizabeth    Betts 
of  ys  Prsh  Nov  9,  17 14  at  Newtown,  publish'd. 
Daniel  Waters  &  Mary  Talman  of  ys  Prsh   Novber   18,   1714  at 
Flushing,  licens'd. 

Jacob  Dayton  &  Grace  Thurston  of  South-hold  Novber  24,   1714 
at  Jamaica,  licens'd. 
William  Steed  &  Deborah  Smith  Feb  16,  17 14  at  Jamaica,  licens'd. 


OF    GRACE    CHURCH  281 

Edward  Churchill  &  Wanche  Ryder  Mar  i,  1714  at  Jamaica,  pub- 
lish'd. 

Jno  Goldin  &  Sarah  Hedger  Mar  11,  1714  at  Jamaica,  publish'd. 
Joseph   Langdon  &   Hannah   Carman   Mar  30,    171 5   at  Jamaica, 
licens'd. 

Walter  Kippin  &  Mary  Underhill  June  12,  171 5  at  Newtown, 
licens'd. 

Peter  Wilcocks  &  Phebe  Badgeley  September  15,  1715  at  Flushing, 
publish'd. 

Abraham  Everet  of  Hempstead  &  Sarah  Wright  of  Jamaica  Oc- 
tober 6,  17 1 5  at  Jamaica  publish'd. 

Thos  Howel  &  Hannah  Young  of  ye  Prsh  of  Flushing  Octo- 
ber 14,  17 1 5  publish'd. 

Jonathan  Murrail  Junr  &  Parnel  Moss  of  ye  Parish  at  Newtown 
Qber  2^,  171 5  publish'd. 

Walter  Harris  &  Hannah  Yeomans  of  Hempstead  Prsh  at  Jamaica 
Jany.  20,  1715/16  licens'd. 

Abel  Smith  of  Hempstead  &  Deborah  Udal  of  Flushing  Janry  25, 
171 5  at  Jamaica  licens'd. 

Robt  Prince  &  Mary  Burgess  of  ye  Prsh  May  31,  17 16  publish'd 
at  Jamaica. 

Richard  Symmons  &  Sarah  Frost  of  Hempstead  August  19,  1716 
at  Jamaica  licens'd. 

Ephraim  Goldin  of  ys  Prsh  &  Catherine  Flewhellin  of  ye  Prsh  of 
Hempstead  August  20,  1716  at  Jamaica  publish'd. 
Samuel  Dean  and  Catherine  Denton  8ber   i,   1716  at  Jamaica  li- 
cens'd. 

Jno  Brown  &  Catherine  Wiesnar  of  Wawayanda  8ber  8,  1716 
at  Jamaica  published. 

James  Hazard  &  Martha  Hallett  Novber  17,  1716  at  Hell  Gate 
licens'd. 

Henry  Symmons  &  Rebecca  Fowler  Novber  22,  1716  at  Jamaica 
licens'd. 

Solomon  Ridley  &  Mary  Crannel  Novber  23,  1716  at  Hell-Gate 
licens'd. 

Phillip  Brooks  &  Mary  Denman  January  2,  1716  at  ye  Kilns 
publish'd. 

Jno  Fish  &  EHzabeth  Hallett  Feby  21,  1716  at  Hell  Gate  publish'd. 
Wmo  Harries  &  Mary  Furman  Feby  22,  1716  at  Newtown,  pub- 
lish'd. 


282  ORIGIN    AND    HISTORY 

Thos  Hooper  &  Alary  Hornctt  March  4.  1716  at  Jamaica,  pub- 
lish'd. 

Jno  Losee  &  Antie  Heptonstal  March  30,  1717,  at  Jamaica  licens'd. 
Adam  Lawrence  &  Sarah  W'illet  April  11,  1717,  at  Flushing,  li- 
cens'd. 

Joseph  Barton  &  Abigal  Lewis  May  5th  1717  at  Jamaica  licensd. 
Solomon  Denton  &  Atalanta  Clav   June   3,   1717  at  Jamaica,  pub- 
lish'd. 

Francis  Nicols  &  Mary  Smith,  July  5,  1717.  at  Jamaica,  licens'd. 
Christopher  Tuly  &  Ann  Sanders  July  24,  1717  at  Jamaica,  pub- 
lished,  gave  her  a  certificate  8ber  8,  1718    Do  to  Mrs.  Munson. 
Thos  Lewis  and  Mary  Wiggins  Aug  6,  1717  at  Jamaica,  publish'd. 
Joseph   Dean  &   Patience   Okely   August    10.    1717   at  Jamaica   li- 
cens'd. 

Jno  Aber  &  Mary  Huls  of  Sealtauket  7hcr  10.  1717  at  Jamaica, 
publish'd  there. 

Samll  Mills  &  Elizabeth  Hare  7ber  14,  1717  at  Jamaica,  publish'd. 
Jno  Munden  &  Elizabeth  Lash  ford  7ber  22,  1717  at  Jamaica  pub- 
Ish'd. 

Richd  Stockton  of  East  Jersey  &  Hester  Smith  of  Jamaica  8ber 
II,  1717  licens'd. 

Jno  Roe  &  Elizabeth  Tiex  9b  10,  at  Jamaica  licens'd. 
Thos  Volantine  of  Hemstead  &  Sarah  Dean  of  Jamaica  Qber    12, 

1717  at  Jamaica  publish'd. 

Joseph  Roades  &  Mary  Smith  of  ys  Prsh  lober  20,  17 17  at  Ja- 
maica publish'd. 

George   Hallett   &   Priscilla   Allen   of    Newtown    ]\Liy    16,    1718   at 
Hell  Gate  licens'd. 
Philip  Riche,   New   York.   &   Mary   Hicks   of    Flushing  June   25, 

17 18  at  little  Neck,  licens'd. 

Francis  Judkin  of  New  York  &  Ann  Wooley  of  Madnam's  Neck 
7ber  2y  1718  at  Jamaica. 

Moses  Haight  of  ye  Parish  of  Wt  Chtr  S:  Rachel  Dean  of  ys 
Prsh  xber  25,  1718  at  Jamaica. 

The  thirteen  entries  following  were  copied  by  Henry  Onder- 
donk,  Jr.,  from  licenses  and  old  sermons  of  Mr.  Foyer's,  and 
inserted  by  him  in  the  Register: 

1723,  Oct  II.  License.  Thos  Candale  gent  of  Jamaica  &  Isabella 
Wiggins  widow  of  Jamaica. 


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1723,  Oct  20.     License.     Guy  Youngs  blacksmith  of  Jamaica  & 
Elizabeth  Edget  of  Jamaica. 

1723  July  20.     License.     Thos  Willet  Senr  of  Flushing  &  Kesiah 
Thorne  of  Flushing. 

1722,  July   12.     License.     Thomas  Howell  tailor  of  Jamaica  and 

Mary  Wright  widow  of  Westchester. 

1722,  July  16.     License.     James  Titus  and  Jane  Simmons  both  of 

Hempstead. 

1 72 1,  Dec  30.     License.     William  Wiggins  of  Jamaica  &  Priscilla 

Latham  of  New  York. 

1721  June  4.    License.     Phineas  Macintosh  Merchant  of  N.  York 

&  Elizabeth  Alsop  of  Queen's  County. 

1724  August  18.    License.   James  Leonard  merchant  of  N.  York  & 
Charity  Whitehead  of  Jamaica. 

1724  Sep  7.     License.     Wm  Barnet  yeoman  of  Jamaica  &  Susanna 
Griffin  Widow  of  Flushing. 

1721  June  19.     License.     Wm  Mash  of  Flushing  gent  &  Miriam 

Hadlock  of  Jamaica. 

1720  June  9.    License.     Israel  Horsfield  butcher  of  New  York  & 

Jane  Watts  of  Hempstead. 

1720  Nov.  25.     License.     Benj.  Doughty  of  Flushing  carpenter  & 

Abigail  Whitehead  of  Jamaica. 

1720  April  23.     license   Theodorus   Van   Wyck   of   Hempstead   & 

Elizabeth  Creed  of  Jamaica. 

Samll   Read  &   Elizabeth   White   of    Newtown    May   21,    1722   at 

Jamaica. 

The  following  six  entries  were  inserted  by  Mr.  Onderdonk : 
June  9,  1722.     By  license  John  Cornell  of  Hempstead  &  Abigail 
Whitehead  of  Jamaica. 

July  8,    1722.     By  license  John   Pudney  of   Hempstead  cooper  & 
Mary  Thorne  of  Hempstead. 

1725  Sept    18     By   license   Edward   Jones   of   Jamaica,    Sadler   & 
Sarah  Welling  of  Jamaica. 

1725  May  6  by  license  Richard  Thorne  &  Altie  Van  Wyck  both 
of  Hempstead. 

1725  May  7    License.     Micah   Smith  &   Phebe  Thorne  both   of 
Hempstead. 

1726  April  12,  License.     Natha  Birdsall  &  Jane  Langdon  both  of 
Hempstead. 


284  ORIGIN    AND    HISTORY 

Jno  (ioodwin  &  Catherine  Sawyer  April  28th  17 19  at  Jamaica, 
publish'd. 

Daniel  Whitehead  &  Elinor  VVillett  May  17.  17 19  at  Flushing, 
licensed. 

Jno  Carr  &  Susanna  Tellet  Aug  30,  1719  at  Jamaica,  publish'd. 
John  Carl  &  Ann  Valentine  of  Hempstead  9ber  6,  17 19,  licensed. 
Wm  Northam  &  Rebecca  Davids  Do  Do  publish'd  at  Hempstead. 
Thos  Smallinc:  &  Catherine  Jones  Do  Do  published  at  Hempstead, 
Paul  Hill  &  Phebe  Smith  9ber  7,  1719  licens'd. 
Edvvd  Willett  &  Alette  Clowes  May  9,  1722  licens'd. 
Thos  Brown  &  Charity  Derickson  Janry  8th  1720  at  Jamaica,  pub- 
lishd. 

Anthony  Whitehead  Waters  &  Margaret  Willet  May  21,  1726  at 
Jamaica  licensed. 

[no  Featherby  &  Rachel  Baldwin  7ber  26,  1725  at  Jamaica,  pub- 
lish'd. 

Wm  Hazalton  &  Hannah  Smith  7ber  ^oth  1725  at  Jamaica,  pub- 
lish'd. 

Jacob  Titus  &  Margaret  Jerman  of  Hempstead  9ber  29,  1725,  pub- 
lish'd. 

Thos  Whitehead  &  Hannah  Sacket  9ber  5.  1725.  at  Newtown, 
licens'd. 

Thos  Willett  &  Sarah  Talman  xber  31,  1725  at  Jamaica,  licens'd. 
James  Alburtus  &  Grace  Jacobs  Febry  4th  1725  at  Hempstead,  li- 
censd. 

Timothy  Wood  &  Hannah  Oldfield  Febry  nth.  1725  at  Jamaica 
publish'd. 

Robert  Titus  &  Sarah  Roberts  July  20,  1726  at  Jamaica,  licens'd. 
Wm.   Hilton  &  Agness   Herring  of   N.   York,   7ber   25,    1726   at 
Jamaica,  licens'd. 

Jno  Bedford  &  Catherine  Wiggins  xber  6  1726  at  Jamaica  licens'd. 
Benjamin  Whitehead  &  Elizabeth  Willett  Febry  28,  1726  at  Ja- 
maica, licens'd. 

Stephen  Hicks  &  Catherine  Vanwyck  May  4th  1727  at  Flushing 
licens'd. 

Thos  Brown  &  Hester  Van  Velsa  Aug  13,  1727  at  Jamaica  pub- 
lish'd. 

Jno  Weeks  &  Ann  White  8ber  30  1727  at  Jamaica,  licens'd. 
James   Hincksman   &   Keziah   Willett  Jany   25,    1727   at  Jamaica, 
licensd. 


OF    GRACE    CHURCH  285 

Joseph  Kissam  &  Deborah  Whitehead  Febry  7,  1727  at  Jamaica, 
licens'd. 

Stephen  Evans  &  Catherine  Brass  Ap.  16,  1728  at  Jamaica,  pub- 
lish'd. 

Augustus  Grassett  &  Elizabeth  Whitehead  July  24,  1728  at  Ja- 
maica licens'd. 

Abraham  Collins  &  Ann  Major  August  nth  1728  at  Jamaica, 
publish'd. 

Joseph  Hallett  &  Mary  Greenoak  Aug  22,  1728  at  N.  Town,  li- 
cens'd. 

Wm  Creed  &  Mary  Hallett  xber  20,  1728  at  Newtown,  licens'd. 
Jno  Whellin  &  Hannah  Reed  Jany  27,  1728  at  Jamaica,  publish'd. 
Jno  Thomas  of  Rye  &  Abigail  Sands  of  Cow  Neck  in  Prsh  of 
Hempstead  Febry  19,  1728  licens'd. 

Wm  Umphreys  &  Mary  Derickson  Febry  25th  1728  published  at 
Jamaica. 

Thos  Doughty  &  Sarah  Clement  March  14,  1728  at  Flushing. 
Jonas   Spark  &  Mary   Wright  of   Hempstead   March  26,    1728  at 
Jamaica,  licens'd  &  Certified. 

Jno  Joley  &  Mary  Christine  7ber  4,  1729  at  Jamaica,  licens'd. 
Thos  Betts  &  Hannah  Areson  Qber  5,  1729  at  Flushing,  licens'd. 
Danll  Shandine  &  Walbrough  Derickson  xber  21,  1729  at  Jamaica, 
publish'd. 

Wm  Sackett  &  Mary  James  xber  31,  1729  at  N.  T.  licens'd. 
Jno  Hallett  &  Sarah  Blackwell  Apr.  3,   1730  at  Mr.  Blackwell's, 
publish'd. 

Thos  Stevenson  &  Sarah  Whitehead  Apr.  29,  1730  at  Jamaica  li- 
cens'd. 

Leveridge  Wright  &  Martha  Phillips  Aug  10,  1730  at  Jamaica 
publish'd. 

Jno  Bannister  &  Eliza  Goldin  7ber  21,  1730  at  Jamaica,  publish'd. 
Geo.  Reynolds  &  Catherine  Stilwell  xber  i,  1730  at  Jam.  licens'd. 
Joseph   Sackett  &  Millicent   Clowes   March  23,    1730  at  Jamaica, 
licens'd. 

John  Farmer  &  Christian  Lee,  8ber  23,  1731  at  Jamaica,  publish'd. 
Jno  Skidmore  &  Mary  Whitehead  xber  17,  1731  at  Loyal  Neck 
in  ye  Parish  of  Jamaica. 

The  four  marriages  following  were  entered  by  Mr.  Onderdonk  : 
1716  Dec.  10.  By  license.  Robert  Hobbs  of  Hempstead  and 
Susanna  Furman  of  Oyster  Bay. 


286  ORIGIN    AND    HISTORY 

1722     June  24.    By  license  John  Willet  of  Flushing  &  Elizabeth 

Laurence  of  Flushing. 

1722     Dec    12.    \Vm   Willet  of   Westchester  &   Mary   Bloodgood 

widow  of  Flushing. 

1 7 19    July  2^.     By  license.     Thos  Cornell  gent  of  Hempstead  & 

Elizabeth  Smith  of  Jamaica. 

PERSONS  BURIED  Ye  TIAIE  Wn  &   PLACE  WHERE. 

Thos  Hughs  of  New  Town  August  18,  1710  at  New  Town. 

Jane  ye  Widow  of  Thos  Hughs  Sepber  6.  1710  at  New  Town. 

Mary  ye  Daughter  of  Jno  &  Susanna  Garretson  8ber  7,   17 10  at 

Jamaica. 

Andrew  Mariner  8ber  13,  17 10  at  Jamaica. 

Jno  Dizer  8ber  14,  1710  at  Jamaica. 

Catherine  ye  Daughter  of  Sam:  &  Cath :  Clowes  Feb.  10.  1710 

at  Jamaica. 

Daniel  ye  Son  of  Thos  &  Jane  Whitehead  March  23,   1710  at 

Jamaica. 

Jno  Garretson  June  21,  171 1  at  Jamaica. 

Mary  ye  wife  of  Wm  West  of  Newtown  July  16,  171 1  at  Jamaica. 

Richd  Betts  of  New  Town  Qber  6,  171 1  at  ye  Kilns. 

Catherine  ye  Daughter  of  Robt  &  Abigail  Read,  June  2,   1712 

at  Jamaica. 

Ruth  ye  Wife  of  Jno  Smith  June  9,  1712  at  Jamaica. 

W^illiam  White  Senr  Septber  6,  1712  at  Jamaica. 

Ruth  ye  Daughter  of  Wm  &  Derica  Woolsey  Novber  11,  1712  at 

Jamaica. 

Jno  Heptonstal  7ber  10,  1713  at  Flushing. 

Susanna  ye  Daughter  of  Johnathan  &  Sarah  Whitehead  Septber 

18,  1713  at  Jamaica. 

Richd  Betts  aged  113  Years  Novber  20,  1713  at  the  Kills. 
Catherine  ye  Daughter  of  Samuel  &  Catherine  Clowes  January 

19,  1713  at  Jamaica. 

Rebeca  Woolsey  aged  91  Feb.  5.  171 3  at  Jamaica. 

W^inifred  Thorn  Feb  20,  1713  at  Flushing. 

Roliert  ye  Son  of  Robert   Milward  &   Elizabeth   Hadlock   Feb 

28,  1713  at  Jamaica. 

Rachel  the  Daughter  of  Francis  &  Catherine  Sawyer  Mar.  20, 

1713  at  Jamaica. 


OF    GRACE    CHURCH  287 

Thos  ye  Son   of  Joel   &   Deborah   Burrows   April   20,    1714  at 
Jamaica. 

Wm  Fowler  May  11,  1714    at  Flushing. 
Dinah  ye  Wife  of  Thos  Howel,  April  21,  1715  at  Jamaica. 
Mary  ye  Daughter  of  Thos  Howel,  July  10,  171 5  at  Jamaica. 
James  Battersby  July  24,  171 5  at  Flushing. 
Elizabeth  ye  Wife  of  James  Hazard  8ber  22,  171 5  at  Newtown. 
Hannah  Peat  Feb  4,  1715  at  Jamaica. 

Abigail  ye  Daughter  of  Thos  &  Ruth  Woolsey  April  4,  1716  at 
Jamaica. 

Mary  ye  Daughter  of  Richd  &  Mary  Betts,  June  14,  1716  at 
Maspic  Kilns. 

Sarah  ye  Wife  of  Francis  Nicols  lober  26,  1716  at  her  Father's 
at  Boswick. 

Johanna  ye  Daughter  of  Edward  &  Johanna  Blagg  Janry  19, 
1716  at  Jamaica. 

Samll  Moorm  Senr  July  27,  1717  at  Newtown. 
Abigail  Whitehead  8ber  15,  1717  at  Jamaica. 
Deborah  ye  Daughter  of  Samll  &  Hannah  Smith  Feb  15,  1717 
at  Springfield. 

William  Creed  Mar  5,  1717  at  Jamaica. 

Margaret  ye  Wife  of  Thos  Rattoon  Ap  26,  1718  at  Flushing. 
William  ye  Son  of  Hannah  Charles   Widow  May   10,   1718  at 
Jamaica. 

Jacob  ye  Son  of  Samuel  &  Hannah  Dean  7ber  5,  1718  at  Jamaica 
Francis  ye  Wife  of  Thos  Poyer  April  15,  1719,  at  Jamaica 
Charles  ye  Son  of  Thos  &  Sarah  Willett  7ber  23,  1719  at  Colic 
Willetts. 

James  Wilson  Aug  27,  1725  at  Jamaica. 
Mrs.  Bett's  Son  March  17,  1725  at  Maspick  Kilns. 
Charity  ye  Wife  of  Thos  Brown  7ber  25,  1726  at  Jamaica. 
Old  Mrs.  Creed  Janry  31,  1726  at  Jamaica. 
Thos  Wiggins  xber  12,  1728  at  Jamaica. 
Wm  Hallett  Aug  20,  1729  at  Hell-Gate. 

Nicolas  ye  Son  of  George  &  Catherine  Reynolds,  Aug  30,  1731 
at  Jamaica. 

Catherine  ye  Wife  of  George  Reynolds  7ber  7,  173 1  at  Jamaica. 
Jno  ye  Son  of  Jno  &  Catherine  Bedford  8ber  18,  173 1  at  Ja- 
maica. 

Rebecca  Wiggins  8ber  19,  1731  at  Jamaica. 
Jane  Garreson  9ber  28,  1731  at  Jamaica. 


VIII 
GRACE  CHURCH  REGISTERS. 

PRIVATE   REGISTER  OF 
REV.   GILBERT  SAYRES,  D.  D. 


The  following  registers  of  Grace  Church  have  been  transcribed 
literally  without  change  in  phrase,  spelling  or  order.  The  form 
has  also  been  preserved  when  possible.  They  are  authentic  copies, 
extended  to  as  late  a  date  as  seemed  proper.    H.  O.  L. 


OF    GRACE    CHURCH  291 


PARISH  REGISTER  OF  GRACE  CHURCH, 

Jamaica,  Long  Island. 
Grace  Church,  Jamaica  was  built  in   1733  and  1734  and  the 
first  time  divine  service  was  performed  in  it  was  on  Friday  the 
5th   March   1734,  when   a  sermon  was  preached   from   Genesis 
xxviii.   16,  17. 

On  this  occasion  the  Governor  of  the  province,  his  lady  and 
family  "honoured  the  meeting  with  their  presence,  and  by  their 
very  generous  benefactions  great  encouragement  was  given  for 
the  finishing  of  the  Church." 

(This  information  is  collected  from  "The  American  Weekly 
Mercury,"  of  March  28,  1734, — a  newspaper  published  at 
Philadelphia  by  Andrew  Bradford. 

Timothy  Clowes, 
Officiating  Minister 
in  the  year  1810. 

MARRIED. 

1769  June  6th,  Cornelius  Van  Wyck  &  Sarah  Hicks 

1770  Augt  8th,  Thoms.  Cornell  &  Elizabeth  Thurston 
Septemb  3,  John  Greenoak  &  Rebekah  Clement 

1771  July  4,  George  Burling  &  Abigail  Morrell 

1772  Jany  6,  Lewis  Guion  &  Elizabeth  Hooglandt 
Febr  20,  Elbert  Hagerman  &  Mary  Smith 
March  30,  Willm  Deane  &  Horionter  Lattin 
July  3,  Thomas  Cornell  &  Ann  Gale 

1773  Jany.  6,  Stephen  Ryder  &  Margret  Mitchell 
Feby  12,  Thomas  Cornel  &  Deborah  Doughty 

16,  Thoms.  Roe  &  Sarah  Morrell 
June  4th,  Willm  Bayley  &  Sarah  Comes 
16,  Willm  Lowree  &  Patience  Gosline 
July  16,  Thos.  Durham  &  Elizabeth   Fish 

1774  March  6,  Garrit  Latting  &  Sarah  Rapelai 

9,  Joseph  Stringham  &  Ann  Betts 
Sepr  4,   Peter   McKee   &   Elizabeth   Ogden 
Novr  17,  John  Cornell  &  Sarah  Rowe 


292  ORIGIN    AND    HISTORY 

1775  Febr  18,  Abraham  Berrian  &  Mary  Moore 
June  2,  Joseph  Rcade  Depeyster  &  Ann  Betts 
April  19 — Joseph  Titus  &  Martha  Moore 
June   15,  Joseph  Roe  &  Ann   Lawrence 
June  24 — Thomas  WelHng  &  Susannah  Betts 
Octobr  25,  Oliver  Roe  &  Margaret  Cornell 

1776  Febry  18,  Danl.  Thorn  &  Basheba  Fowler 

Decemb.  17,  Lt.  Coll.  Thos.  James  &  Margaret  Depeyster 

1777  May  4,  Lt.  George  Brown  &  Mary  French 

4,  Peter  Ryeson  &  Sarah  Welling 

1778  Jany.  8,  John  Deakin  &  Jane  Berrian 
June  13,  John  Dunbarr  &  Aletta  Willet 
Sept.  20,  Oliver  Waters  &  Jane  Talmon 
Octobr  12,  John   Rider  &  Greetie  Noostrandt 
Decemb  14,  James  Brundige  &  Hannah  Hunt 

25,  Thorns.  Fairchild  &  Elizabeth  Vanderwater 

1779  Jany.   19,  Henery  Disbrow  &  Abigail   Fowler 
March  10,  William  Waters  &  Hannah  Hallet 

17,  Garrit  Durling  &  Sarah  Smith 
April  II,  Israel  Seaman  &,  Sarah  Rowland 
21,  Edward  Bristow  &  Mary  Doak 
June  17,  Henery  Nicoll  &  Alice  Willett 
July  4,  David  Haviland  &  Mary  Tom 
Sept  19,  John  Danl.  &  Elizabeth  Blank 
Novr  25,  Oliver  Fowler  &  Elizabeth  Kowe 

1780  April  2,  Thoms.  Charles  Mann  &  Elizabeth  Coon 
May  27,  David  Moore  &  Jemima  Hallet 

June  II,  Capt  John  Meredith  &  Gertrude  Skinner 
Augst  27,  William  Smith  &  Letitia — (Incog) 
Novmb  12,  John  Berger  8z  Miriam  Oldlield 

1780  Novr.   19,   Matthew   F'arrington   &   Phebe   McCollum 

19,  Heyman  Clarke  &  Hannah  Wortman 
19,  Jarvis  Dobbs  &  Elizabeth  Wortman. 
Decemb.  23,  John  Durling  &  Elizabeth  Smith 

1781  Febr.   18,  David  M.  Clerkson  &  Mary  Vanhorne 
Mch  15,  Saml.  Wiggins  &  Margret  Leister 

21,  Danl.  Hallet  &  Charity  Moore 
May  20,  John  McWickcr  &  Ann  Moore 
June  2,  Jacob  Moore  &  Elizabeth  Waters 

17,  John  Counsle}'  to  Rachel  Carr 


OF    GRACE    CHURCH  293 

July  15,  James  Bonney  &  Elizabeth  Fish 
15,  Robert  Mills  &  Hannah  Willis 

1782  Jany.  29,  Thorns.  Durling-  &  Mary  Hall 

April  27,  Jechoniah  Holcomb  of  ye  City  of  New  York  & 

Ruth  Sealy,  of  Eatons  Neck 
May  12,  John  Willet  &  Mary  Nostrand  both  of  Flushing 
May  23,  Joseph  M.  Moore  &  Sarah  Bay,  both  of  Newtown 
June  9th,  Charles  Saltman  Sergt  of  ye  70th  Regt.  &  Mary 

Adams,  of  Jamaica 
Augt  22,  Willm  Seaman  &  Ann  Fowler 
Octob.    12,    Robt    Lawrence    &    Mary    Lawrence   both   of 

Flushing. 
Nov.  3,  David  Lawrence  &  Sarah  Fowler  both  of  Flush- 
ing 
Decemb.  12,  Nathan  Bouton  of  Huntingdon  &  Abigail  Bur- 

tock  of  Loyds  Neck 
14,  James  Smith,   Lt.  in  ye  79th   Regt  &   Mary 

Devine  of  Queens  County 
14,  Peter  Ball,  elk  of  ye  Hospital  &  Charity  Lot  of 

Flatbush  in  Kings  County 

1783  Jany.  5,  James  Horton  &  Anna  Styne  both  of  Jamaica 
March  16,  James  Mceuen,  Soldier  of  ye  3rd  Batln  of  Delan- 

ceys  Brigade  & Seaman  of  Flushing. 

26,   Joshua    Garrett    Ensign    of   ye    Kings    Florida 
Rangers  &  Vashte  Carr  of  Oyster  Bay 
May  4,  Abni  Rew,  soldier  in  Coll.  Robinsons  Regt.  &  Mary 
Clay  of  Flushing. 
18,  David  Roe  &  Juliane  Fowler  Both  of  Flushing 

18,  Florence   Sullivan  of  the   City   of  New  York  & 

Margraet  Laffan  of  Jamaica 
June  19,  David  Hallett,  of  Hellgate,  &  Elizabeth  Gedney 
of  Newtown 

19,  Nathanell  Moore  &  Martha  Gedney  both  of  New- 

town. 

July  21,  Henery  Knipschild  of  New  York  &  Pamela  Haz- 
ard of  Newtown. 

Augt.  10,  James  Creighton  &  Mary  Ogden  Both  of  Jamaica 
31,  Willm  Dawson  of  New  York  &  Lydia  Hallett  of 
Newtown 


294  ORIGIN    AND    HISTORY 

Sept.  5,  Richd  Harrison  of  New  York  &  Frances  Ludlow 
of  Hempstead 
7,  Benjam   Piatt  of  Hempstead  &   Hannah  Whaley 

of  the  same  place 
14,  James  Cotter,  Soldr  in  ye  57th  Regt.  &  Margraet 
Mc  Clean 
Novmb.  3,  Thom.  Martin  Palmer  untr  to  Admirl  Digby  & 
Catharine  McEvers  of  Jamaica 
23,  Bernard  Rapaley  of  Flushing  &  Deborah  Ged- 
ney  of  Newtown 

1784  Jany  22,  John  Charlton  Donghan  of  Staten  Island  &  Pa- 

tience More  of  Newtown 

Febry.  7,  David  Rowland  &  Aidy  Shutphen  Both  of  Flush- 
ing 

March  8,  Stephen  Hallett  &  Rebekah  Moore  Both  of  New- 
town 
29,  Francis  Dashwood  of  Jamaica  in  West  Indies  & 

Mary  Ludlow  of  Hempstead 
29,    Gillon   V'erplank    &    Cornelia    Johnson    Both    of 
New  York 

April   28,    Capt.    Danl.    Williams   &    Mary   Hunt   both   of 
Westchester 

Augst  26,  Willm  VVavnman  &  Hannah  James  Both  of  New 
York 

Septemr  30,  David  Purdy  &  Mary  Rapalaie  Both  of  New 
Town 

1785  Septeme.    12,   Saml.   Thorn    of   New   York   &   Sarah    V'an 

Wyck   of   East   Woods   in   Hempstead 
22,  David  Chapman  of  Anapolis  in  Nova  Scotia 
&  Elizabeth  Doughty  of  Jamaica,  L.  Island 
Sept.  27,  James  Pcttit  &  Abigail  Doughty  Both  of  Newtown 
Octr.  30,  Thoms  Kelly  &  Elizabeth  Vanpelt  Both  of  Flushing 
Jabez  Corbine  &  Mary  Lawrence  Both  of  Flushing 
Danl.  Derbyshire  &  Isabell  Marston  Both  of  Flushing. 
Novr.  16,  John  Griffiths  of  the  City  of  New  York  &  Ann 
Betts  of  Jamaica 

1786  May  21,  Augustine  Field  &  Mary  Cornell  Both  of  Flushing 
Augst  13,  James  Boyd  of  Westchester  &  Letitia  Farring- 

ton  of  Flushing 


OF    GRACE    CHURCH  295 

Octobr  8,  Robt  Hunt  &  Ann  Way  Both  of  New  Town 

28,  Saml.  Goodwin  of  N.  York  &  Juda  Hallet  of 
New  Town 
Novr  9,  Saml.  Sacket  of  New  York  &  Elizabeth  Kissam 

of  Flushing 
Decemr.  13,  Saml  Hopper  &  Mary  Willms  Both  of  New- 
town 
17,  Rob.  Crommelin  &  Mary  Willoughby  Both  of 

Flushing 
2y,  Richd  Way  &  Sarah  Hyatt  Both  of  Netown 

1787  May  27  Benjm   Lawrence  &  Hannah   Carpenter  Both  of 

Flushing 
Decemr  i,  John  Tatford  &  Charity  Hendrickson  Both  of 

Jamaica 
Dec.  30,  John  Troup  &  Sarah  Hammersly  Both  of  Jamaica 

1788  March  13,  Dr.  John  Onderdonk  of  New  York  &  Deborah 

Ustick  of  Flushing 
April  ID,  Willm  Wilkins  of  New  York  &  Ann  Thorn  of 

Flushing 
May  12,  John  Dunn  &  Deborah  Miller  Both  of  Flushing 
31,  Dr.  Richd  Lawrence  &  Mary  Moore  Both  of  New- 
town 
Octob  26,  Benjm  Drake  &  Phebe  Birchell  Both  of  Eastchester 
Novem.    16,   Thomas  Hunt  of   Eastchester    &     Elizabeth 
Field  of  Flushing 

1789  Jany  10,  Charles  McDaud  &  Sarah  Betts  Both  of  Jamaica 

18,  John  Hicks  of  Flushing  &  Sarah  Titus  of  New- 
town 

March  28,  Cornelius  Creed  of  Jamaica  &  Rachel  Hyatt  of 
Newtown 

May  18  (or  19),  John  Gosling  &  Sarah  Paul  Both  of  New- 
town 

Octob  II,  George  Reed  &  Ann  Hardy  Both  of  N.  York 

Octobr  13,  Jacob  Ogden  &  Mary  Depeyster  Both  of  Ja- 
maica. 

Nov.  29,  John  Evers  of  New  York  &  Susanna  Titus  of 
Newtown 


296  ORIGIN    AND    HISTORY 


BAPTIZED 

1780  June  15,  Beloyal  Livingston  Son  of  Phillip  Livingston 

2,  Thomas  Ambcrman,  A  Negro  Slave 

1781  March    12,    Thomas    Duncan,    Son    of    Danl.    &    Arabella 

Ludlow 
29.    Margraet    Willett,   daughter   of  John    &   Ann 
Waters 
April  I,  Elizabeth  daughter  of  Jabez  &  Mary  Hustead 

13,  Martha  daughter  of  Stephen  Wiggins 
May  4,  Isaac,  John,  Esther,  Joseph  (May  7),  Clara,  Aletta, 
Sarah,  Sons  and  daughters  of  Jonathn  &  Mary 
Anderson 
4,  Jeremiah,  Son  of  Willm  &  Elizabeth  Anderson 
6,  Mary  daughter  of  Peter  &  Ann  Berton 

20,  Harriet  daughter  of  Josiah  &  Anna  Pomeroy 
July  22,  Mary  daughter  of  Jarvis  &  Elizabeth  Dobbs 
Augst  ID,  Ann  daughter  of  Thorn  &  Catherine  Clout 
Sept  2,  Ann  Payne  daughter  of  Gerard  &  Sarah  Beekman 

9,  James  Jervis  son  of  Thomas  &  Joanna  Ganong 
13,  John  &  Nicholas  sons  of  Nicholas  Jones 
16,  Elizabeth  daughter  of  John  &  Aletta  Dunbar 

21,  Douwc,  son  of  Douwe  &  Catherine  Ditmus 
Octobr  5,  Catherine  Betts  daughter  of  Thorns  &  Susanna 

Welling 

25,  Ann   Prichard   daughter  of  Anthony  &   Phebe 
Terrill 

Decemb.  6,  Thorns,  son  of  Isaac  &  Isabella  Wilkins 

26,  Aletta  daughter  of  Willm  &  Aletta  Vaughn 

1782  Janry  6,  Addison  son  of  Heman  &  Hannah  Clarke 

8,  Thomas  Howel  son  of  Thoms  &  Margraet  Smith 

9,  Mary  daughter  of  Thoms.  &  Margraet  Smith 
20,  Sarah  daughter  of  Thoms  & Smith 

Joseph  son  of  Joseph  8z  Sarah  Ely 
Feb.  6,  Sarah  daughter  of  Nathaniel  &  Johanna  Moore 
March    21,    Elizabeth    Chaning   daur   of   Revd.    Thoms    &. 
Judah  Moore 
31,  Phebe  daughter  of  John  &  Miriam  Burger 
April  7,  James  son  of  Phillip  &  Susanna  Herny 

9,  Eugenia  daughter  of  David  &  Mary  Haviland 


OF    GRACE    CHURCH  297 

May  5,  George  son  of  James  &  Elizabeth  Bonney 
7,  John  Halstead  son  of  John  &  Ann  Waters 
June  2,  Abrahm.  &  Nathanl.  More  sons  of  Abm  &  Mary 

Denio 
Augt   17,  John  Dunbarr — an  adult 

18,  Mary  the  daughter  of  John  &  Margrt.  Houlroyd 
Sept  15,  Stephen  son  of  Simon  &  Margaret  Wiggins 
Octobr  22,  Hannah,  Mary,  Saml.  children  of  Isaac  &  Mary 
Pettit 
23,      Catharine    daughter    of    Danl.    &    Catharine- 
Whitehead 
Decemr  6,  James  Henry  son  of  John  &  Sophia  McDonald 

1783  Jany  19,  Nathan  Fish  son  of  Willm  &  Jane  Moore 

2'^,  Ann  daughter  of  Elihu  &  Ann  Hume 
Feb.  2,  Gilbert,  son  of  Henry  &;  Elizabeth  Dawson 
May    18,    Margraet   Willett,    Sarah    W^illett,    daughters   of 

James  &  Sarah  Morrell 
June  25,  Marinus  Willett  son  of  Willm  &  Aletta  Vaughn 
July  25,  Agnes  Betts  daughter  of  John  &  Ann  Waters 
July  2J,  Peter  son  of  Thomas  &  Elizabeth  Fairchild 
27,  Balthus,  son  of  Stephen  &  Esther  Delancey 
Septembr  7,  Frances  daughter  of  Daniel  &  Arabella  Ludu- 
low 
John  son  of  Heman  &  Hannah  Clark 
Ann  Dashwood  daughter  of  Francis  &  Eliza- 
beth Lewis 
Novemb  9,  Elizabeth  daughter  of  Thoms  &  Elizabeth  Cor- 
nell 

1784  Janry  5,  Lucretia  Wiggins,  an  Adult 

Richard  Wiggins,  an  Adult 
Mary  daughter  of  Richd   &  Ann   Wiggins 
18,  Willm  son  of  Willm  &  Jane  Roarden 
March  27,  Ann  daughter  of  John  Carpenter 
Sep.  5,  Ann  daughter  of  John  &  Mary  Hincksman 

Saml.  Gregson  son  of  Saml.  &  Mary  Turner,  late 
of  Chancy  Lane  in  the  Parish  of  St.  Andrew 
Holborn  in  the  County  of  Middlesex,  London. 

1785  Janr  10   Thoms.  Colgan  son  of  Danl.  &  Cathanne  White- 

head 
II,  Catherine  daughter  of  Danl  &  Mary  Kissam 


298  ORIGIN    AND    HISTORY 

14,  Benjamin  son  of  Jacol)  &  Elizabeth  Moore 
May  22,  Thorns,  son  of  Richd  &  Abigail  Alsop 
June  5,  Charles  the  son  of  John  &  Margraet  Houlroyd 
June  10,  James  son  of  Stephen  &  Rcbekah  Hallett 

10,  John  son  of  Isaac  &  Susannah  Begavv 
July  3,  Mary,  wife  of  Jonthn  Strictland,  an  Adult 

3,  Richard  Lawrence,  son  of  Jonthn  &  Mary  Strict- 
land 
October  2,  Augustus,  son  of  d 

Novemr  13,  Richd  son  of  Charles  &  Welling 

20,  Eloisa  daughter  of  Francis  &  Elizabeth  Lewis 
27,  Cornelius    Rapalay    son    of    David    &    Mary 
Purdy 

1786  Jany.   15,  Aletta,  daughter  of  John  &  Ann  Waters 

15,  Frederick  son  of  John  &  Sarah  Polhemus 

May  20,  Hannah  Waynman,  an  adult 

20,  Benjn  son  of  Joseph  &  Lydia  Burrows 

20,  Ann,  daughter  of  Willm  &  Hannah  Waynman 

Sept.  5,  Willm  David,  son  of  David  &  Patience  Titus 

1787  Jany  i,  Edward  Bardin,  son  of  Danl  &  Catharine  White- 

head 
June  17,  Elizabeth,  daughter  of  John  &  Margraet  Holroyd 
June  24,  Susannah  daughter  of  Isaac  &  Susannah  Begaw 
July  15,  John,  William,  Thomas,  Christopher,  children, 
Sons  of  Blakeney  &  Catherine  Bouchica  of  Ja- 
maica 
Aug.  19,  Gabriel  Ludlow  son  of  Francis  &  Elizabeth  Lewis 
Octobr.   I,  John  Shoals,  son  of  Jacob  &  Elizabeth  Moore 

28,  Susannah  Betts,  An  Adult 
Novembr  3,  Ann  Smith  An  Adult 

Danl.  Thorn,  son  of  Hutchins  &  Ann  Smith 

1788  Janry  1,  John  George,  &  Elizabeth  Mary,  children  of 

6,  George  Baker,  An  Adult 
25,  Jonathan  Underbill,  An  Adult 

Sarah,  Hannah,  Willm,  Mary,  Ann,  Children  of 

Jonathan    Sz    Hannah    Underbill 

27,  Maria  Ann,  daughter  of  Saml  &  Ann  Brownjohn 

Feby  i,  Sarah.  An  Adult,  the  wife  of  Cornelius  Hyatt, — 

and  also  Sarah,  Thomas  &  Anna,  their  children 


OF    GRACE    CHURCH  299 

May  25,  At  Jamaica  was  baptized  by  the  Revd  Thomas 
Moore,    Mary,    Daughter  of  John   &   Charity 
Thatford,  also  Elizabeth,  Daughter  of  George 
&    Hannah    Baker    Enterred   by    the    request   of 
Mr  Moore      Wm  Hammell 
Febr  7,  Jane,  the  daughter  of  Oliver  &  Catherine  Tem- 
pleton 
14,  Jane,  the  daughter  of  Hulett  &  Charlotte  Creed 
17,  Jane,  the  daughter  of  Richd  &  Ann  Wiggins 
March  2,  Cornelius,  the  son  of  David  &  Mary  Purdy 

9,  John  Vanpelt,  son  of  Thorns  &  Elizabeth  Kelly 
April  13,  Willm.  son  of  Isaac  &  Mary  Pettit 

27,  Hetecha,  daughter  of  Jonathan  &  Rebekah  Jones 
Anno 

1788  June  22,  Sarah,  daughter  of  Isaac  &  Rhoda  Hewlett 

22,  Joseph  Roe,  of  Flushing,  An  Adult 

22,  Fanny,  daughter  of  James  &  Sarah  Morrell 

22,  John  &  Sarah,  Children  of  John  &  Elizabeth  V. 

Voorhoes 
29,  Frances,  Deborah  Smith,  Sarah,  Hannah,  Waters 
Smith,  Richard,  Stephen,  Field — All  Adults 
July  27,  John — the  son  of  Saml  Eldert  of  Jamaica 
Augst  15,  Sarah,  daughter  of  Willm  &  Hannah  Waynman 
Novr.  30,  Elizabeth,  daughter  of  John  &  Sarah  Troup 

1789  March  ye  23,  Richd  Morrell,  An  Adult 

Sept.  13,  Thomas,  son  of  Saml.  &  Ann  Brownjohn 
Novembr  29,    Charlotte,   the   daughter  of  John   &   Sarah 
Hicks 

1790  May  2,  Willm  James,  the  son  of  Willm  &  Hannah  Wayn- 

man 
16,  John,  the  son  of  Willm  &  Mary  Aspinwall 
23,  Jane,  the  daughter  of  Hulett  &  Charlotte  Creed 
30,  Levinah,  the  daughter  of  David  &  Mary  Purdy 
30,  Nelly,  the  daughter  of  Isaac  &  Susannah  Begaw 


500  ORIGIN    AND    HISTORY 


REGISTER  OF  MARRIAGES  AND   BAPTISMS 

For  the  Congregations  of  Grace  Church,  Jamaica,  of  St  James 
Church,  New-Town,  and  St.  George's  Church,  Flushing — Con- 
tinued 

To  which  is  annexed  the  names  of  those  who  are  Communi- 
cants in  the  Church,  and  of  such  who  altho'  not  in  Communion, 
yet  belong  to  the  Congregations. 

Wm.  Hammell,  Rect. 

Grace  Church  was  rebuilt  Anno.  Domi.  1821-1822  and  was 
consecrated  to  the  Service  of  Almighty  God  by  the  Rt.  Revd. 
Bishop  Hobart,  Monday  15th  July  1822.  Gilbert  H.  Sayres, 
Rector  and  Lewis  E.  A.  Eigenbrodt  &  Timothy  Nostrand,  War- 
dens. 

COMMUNICANTS 

IN  THE  SEVERAL  CHURCHES  OF  JAMAICA,   NEW  TOWN   AND  FLUSHING. 


At  lamaica 


Time  when 
received 
in 
Anno 
Christopher  Smith  1791 

Mary  Smith 
James  D  Peyster 
Sarah  D.  Peyster 
Ann  D.  Peyster 
Sarah  D.  Peyster 
James  McKrell 
Millar  McKrell 
Ann   Betts 
Ann  R  D  Peyster 
Jacob  Van  Pelt 
John   Dudley 
Aletta  Warne 


OF    GRACE    CHURCH 


301 


Aaron    Van    Nostrand 


James  Morrell           ) 

Octob  i6 

Sarah    Morrell           ) 

Isaac   Pettit               ) 

Dec  25 

Mary  Pettit               ) 

Catharine    Hammell 

April  8 

John  Dunn 

— 

Deborah   Dunn 

May  27 

Time  when 

received 

At  New  Town 

in 

Anno 

Sarah  Moore 

1791 

John  Moore 

David  Titus 

Mary  Renny 

Abigail  Alsop 

Charles  Roach 

Elizabeth  Roach 

Lydia  Burroughs 

James  Bonney 

Joseph  Morrel 

Johanna    Moore 

Patience  Lawrence 

Ann   Fish 

John  Waters 

Mary  Kippen 

John  Moore,  Jnr 

Elizabeth  Fish 

Fanny  Whitehead 

Juda  Roosevelt 

Susanna  Betts 

Mary  Sticklin 

May  8 

Benjamin  Buckbee 

Octobr  9 

Elizabeth  Alsop 

Anno  1792 

Susanna  Bergau 

Jan  7,8 

Woodred 

June   10 

302 


ORIGIN    AND    HISTORY 


1793 

Elizabeth    Hazard 

April  I 

1794 

Mary    Lawrence 

June  22 

Time  when 

At  Flushing 

received 
in 

Anno 

Elizabeth    Ludlow- 

1791 

William  Ustick 

Susanna   Ustick 

Susanna  Ustick 

Jane  Ustick 

Ann  Ustick 

Thos  Fairchild 

Miss   Fanny  Moore     ' 

)        Octob.  2 

Thos.  Reid                     " 

) 

Elizabeth    Reid 

Do 

Rebecca  Aspinwall 
Garret  Beeckman 
Bathsheba  Thorn         ) 
Ann   Smith  ) 


1792 

June  3 

Decbr.  30 

1793 
Sep.  29 


MARRIAGES 


Anno  1790  Septembr  15th,  Married,  Mr.  Richard  Piatt  of  New 
York,    and    Sarah    Aspinwall    of    Flushing. 
Octobr  31st,   Married,  Thomas   Billup,  of   New   York  and 
Abigail  Moore  of  New  Town 
Anno  1791   Jany.    loth,   Married,  John   Grigg,  and   Maria  Pell, 
both  of  New  York 
Nov.  17th,  Peter  Rosevelt  and  Judith  Godwin,  both  of  New 

Town 
Decembr    I5tli,   Peter  Vandervoort,   and   Anna   Burroughs 
both  of  New  Town 
Anno   1792   March    ist,  Josep  Sealy,  of  the   Little   Plains,  and 
Bonnella  Welling,  of  Jamaica 


OF    GRACE    CHURCH  303 

April  loth,  Monson  Hayt,  late  of  New  Bronnswick,  Nova 

Scotia,    and    Lucretia   Hamersly,    of   Jamaica, 

Long  Island 
Anno    1792  June    14th,   Richard   Hartshorn,   of   New   York   and 

Susanna  Ustick,  of   Flushing 
July   7th,    William    McKrell,    and    Sarah    Tatford    both    of 

Jamaica 
Henry  Waterbury  of  New  York,  and   Margaret 

Tatford  of  Jamaica 
Sepr    13th,    Timothy    Roach,    of    New    Town    and    Sarah 

Hallet,  of  St.  Johns,   New   Bromswick,   Nova 

Scotia 
Octobr   14th,   Timothy   Way,   and   Hannah    Buckbee,   both 

of  New  Town 
Novbr.  25th,  John  Evans,  and  Susanna  Betts  both  of  New 

Town 
Decbr   13,  Abraham   Ditmus  &   Harriet  Doughty,   both   of 

Jamaica 

Wm   Hammell,   Rectr 

1793  April  17th,  Married  John  Mitchel,  and  Jane  Hewlet  both 

of  North   Hemstead 
September   5th,  Anthony   Barckley,   and  Anna   Lent,   both 

of  New  Town 
November  3rd,  Joseph  Caldwell  of  New  York  and  Sarah 

Moore,  of  Brooklyn 

1794  January  2nd,  James  Sprouls,  and  Elizabeth  Durling,  both 

Jamaica  South 

February  4th,  Married,  Abraham  Beriyan,  and  Pellatia 
Williams,  both  of  New  Town 

February  5th,  Married  Stephen  Hicks  &  Mary  Carpenter 
both  of  Jamaica 

February  26th,  Married  Henry  Beadel,  and  Nelly  Wood- 
red,   both   of   Bushwick 

April  ist.  Married  Robert  Crommelin,  of  New  York,  and 
Ann  De  Peyster,  of  Jamaica 

November  8th,  Married  Charles  Simmons,  and  Abigail 
Fowler,  both  of  Flushing 

1795  March   15th,  Married,  Richard  Brinkerhoof,  and   Rebecca 

Berian,   both   of   New   Town 


304  ORIGIN    AND    HISTORY 

June  nth,  Married  William  Hartshorn,  of  Xew  York,  and 

Jane  Ustick,  of  Flushing 
June    14th,    Married    Basil   J.    Bartow,   and    Elizabeth   Ann 

Honeywell,  both  of  Westchester 

Wm  Hammell,  Rectr 

1795  Novbr  8lh,  Thomas   Durling,  and   Nancy    Farington   both 

of  New  Town 
Novbr    15th.   Frederick   Field,   and   Margaret   Lowistoth   of 
Mushing 

1796  February  29,  1796  by  Revd  Mr.  Seabury  John  I.  Morgan, 

and  Catharine  Warne 
Married   by   Elijah    D.   Rattoone,   Rector  of   Grace   Church. 

Jamaica 
William   Richarson  to  Eliza  Barden  the  former  of  New 
York — the  latter  of  Jamaica  on  the  24th  day  of  March 
A.  D.   1798 

Andrew  Napier  to  Catherine  Welling  the  former  of  New 
York — the  latter  of  Jamaica.  Sept.  29,  1800 
Susan  Woolley  to  W'illiam  Dodge  June  iCth  1799.  Wit- 
nesses, Tristram  Dodge  &  John  Hicks  Junr 
Married  in  New  York  January  loth  1810  James  Arm- 
strong to  Sarah  Bond,  both  of  the  Island  of  Jamaica, 
W.   I. 

Timothy  Clowes,  Minister  of  Grace  Church 

BAPTISMS 

Anno  1790  Jamaica 

Augst    1st.    Baptized   William,    son   of   William    &   Martha 
Smith 
26,   was   baptized   by   Rev.   Tho.    Moore,  James   De- 
peyster,  son  of  Jacob  &  Mary  Ogden 
Jamaica  Octobr  loth.  Baptized  William.  Hannah,  Ann  &  Mar- 
garet  Waters,  Adults 
Nov.   8th,    Hallets    Cove,    New   Town,    Nov.   8th    Baptized 
Edward    Grcenoak.   Sarah    Greenoak.    Sarah    Law- 
rence,   Elizabeth    Lawrence.    Elizabeth    Greenbak. 
Martha     Hare,     Elizabeth     Dalton.     Mary     Hallet. 
Samuel     Ilare,      Nathaniel     Greenoak.      Benjamin 
Hallet,  Adults 


OF    GRACE    CHURCH  305 

1790  Nov.  8th,  Maria,  daughter  of  Joseph  and  Mary  Hallet 
David  Titns,  son  of  Edward  and  Sarah  Greenoak. 
David   Titus,   Godfather 

Nathaniel   Greenoak,  son  of  Malancthon  &  Sarah 
Lawrence,   Nathaniel    Greenoak,   Godfather. 
Deborah    Greenoak,    daughter    of    Melancthon    & 
Sarah  Lawrence.    John  Greenoak,  Godfather 
Maria,  daughter  of  Malancthon  &  Sarah  Lawrence. 
David  Titus,   Godfather 

Rebecca  Moore,  Lydia  and  Nathaniel  Moore,  chil- 
dren of  Stephen  &  Rebecca  Hallet 
Richard,    son    of    Edward    and    Sarah    Greenoak. 
Rich  Hallet,  Godfather 

1790 

Jamaica   Nov.   22nd,   Baptized   Isaac,   son  of  Isaac   and   Rhoda 
Hewlett 
28,  Baptized  Anna,  daughter  of  John  and  Charity  Thatford 

Anno  1 791 

Feby.  i6th,  Jamaica  Baptized  Sarah,  daughter  of  Isaac  &  Mary 
Pettit 

Feby  27th,  Baptized  Samuel,  son  of  Samuel  and  Elizabeth  Sacket 

March  9th,  John,  son  of  John  and  Sarah  Troup 

Jamaica  March  13th,  Benjamin  Daniel,  son  of  Samuel  and  Eliza- 
beth Welling  N.  B.  Benjamin  Tanner,  was  In- 
tended 

Baptized  Jamaica  March  zt^,  William,  son  of  John  and  Mary 
Hinckman 

New  Town,  March  27th,  Nathaniel  Kenney,  an  Adult 

Flushing,  May  9th,  Daniel  Thorn,  his  wife  Bathsheba  Thorn 
and  Mary  Thorn,  their  daughter.  Adults 

Flushing,  May  22,  Elizabeth  Van  Pelt,  daughter  of  Thomas  and 
Elizabeth  Kelly 

New  Town  June  26th,  Catharine  daughter  of  Morris  &  Cathar- 
ine Hazzard 

Flushing  July  loth,  Elena,  an  adult,  wife  of  James  Allen,  of  New 
York,  Clarissa  &  James,  children  of  James  &  Elena 
Allen   Fairchild  and  theii    mother,  Sponsors 
Isaac,  son  of  Richard  and  Peck 

Baptized  at  Flushing,  July  i6th,  Mary,  daughter  of  Daniel  and 
Mary  Kissam 


306  ORIGIN    AND    HISTORY 

New  Town,  Augst  17th,  Sally  Fish,  daughter  of  John  and  Ann 
Waters.    Mrs  Waters  and  Mrs.  Burris  answered  for 

Jamaica,  Augst  14th,  Thomas  Willett,  son  of  Daniel  and  Cath- 
arine Wliitehead 

Newtown  Augst  15th,  Mrs.  Nancy  Buckbee.  an  Adult 

Abigail,  Hannah  &  Benjamin,  children  of  Benjamin 
and  Nancy  Buckbee 

Flushing  Augst  i8th,  Patience  Susanna,  daughter  of  John  and 
Sarah  Hicks  David  Titus  and  Susanna  Evers, 
Sponsors 

Jamaica,  Septembr  25th,  Mary,  daughter  of  Susanna  Van  Pelt 
Sponsors,  her  father  Jacob  Van  Pelt  and  her  sister 
Mary  V.  Pelt 

Kendel  &  Alexander,  children  of  John  and  Deborah 
Dunn 

Flushing,    Octobr   2nd,    Mrs   Anna    Roe,    Lawrence    Roe,    Miss 
Betsy  Roe,  and  Ann  Cornell,  Adults 
Martha,  William,  Richard,  Samuel,  Abraham,  Isaac, 
children  of  William  &  Martha  Lowree 

Nov.  13th,  Catherine  and  Sarah,  Children  of  Wm  &  Catharine 
Weaver 

New  Town,  Nov.  20th,  Sarah,  daugtr  of  Benjamin  and  Nancy 
Buckbee 

Jamaica,  Nov.  29th,  Margaret,  daughter  of  William  and  Martha 
Puntine 

New  Town,  Dec.  26th,  John,  son  of  James  and  Elizabeth  Moore 

Anno  1792 

New  Town  Jany  20,  Sarah  Tompkins,  Hannah  Buckbee,  Adults 
Edward  &  John,  children  of  Joseph  &  Sarah  Tomp- 
kins 

Flushing  Jany.  22nd,  John  Hutchins.  son  of  John  Hutchins  & 
Anna  Smith 

Jamaica,  Jany.  29th,  Anna  &  Roloef  Duryee,  Junior,  children  of 
Richard  and  Anna  Wiggins 

Jamaica,  Feby.  15th,  Eliza,  daughter  of  John  and  Catharine 
Hinckman 

New  Town,  March  nth,  Elizabeth  Ann,  daughter  of  Jonathan 
and  Hannah  Underbill 

Flushing  Marh  22nd,  Cecelia  Gold,  daughter  of  Francis  &  Eliza- 
beth Lewis 


OF    GRACE    CHURCH  307 

Jamaica,  April  4th,  Elizabeth,  daughter  of  Hulett  and  Charlotte 
Creed 

Jamaica,  April  6th,  Maria,  daughter  of  Samuel  and  Catalina  El- 
dred 

Newtown,  April  24th,  George,  son  of  Daniel  and  Ellen  Rapelye 

May  28,  Thomas,  Anna,  Samuel  Hallet,  Joseph  &  David,  Chil- 
dren of  David  and  Jemima   Moore 

Hallets  Cove,  June  4th,  Lydia,  daughter  of  Joseph  and  Mary 
Hallet 

Mary  Bergam,  daughter  of  Stephen  and  Rebecca 
Hallet  N.  B.  Rebecca  Bergan  stood  Sponsor  with 
the  Parents 

Jamaica,  June  24th,  James  Henry,  son  of  John  and  Elizabeth 
V.  Voorhase 

Hallets  Cove,  Augst  15th,  Elizabeth,  daughter  of  Isaac  &  Sus- 
anna Bergan 

Jamaica,  Sept.  30th,  Obadiah  Paul,  son  of  Obadiah  &  Sarah 
Leach.  Sponsors,  Abraham  Probasco  and  the 
mother 

Jamaica,  Oct  21st,  William  Henry,  son  of  William  and  Cathar- 
ine Hammell.  Sponsors,  John  Hammell,  John  Grigg 
and  Hannah  Hammell 

New  Town,  Novbr  25th,  David,  son  of  David  and  Mary  Purdy 

Jamaica,  Dec  23rd,  Jane,  daughter  of  Joseph  and  Mary  Yandle 
Jenne,  daughter  of  Isaac  and  Mary  Pettit 

Jamaica  Dec.  15th,  William  Betts,  son  of  Charles  and  Sarah 
McDavid 

Nathaniel  Lewis,  son  of  Nathaniel  &  Elizabeth 
Betts.  N.  B.  The  above  ought  to  have  been  inserted 
before  the  two  last  Baptisms. 

Anno  1793 

Jamaica,  March  17th,  Sarah,  daughter  of  Samuel  and  Elizabeth 
Welling  The  Parents  and  Sarah  Polhemus,  Spon- 
sors 

Flushing,  April  28th,  William  Simmonds,  an  Adult 

At  Jamaica,  in  the  Evening,  Joanna  Smith,  daughter  of  Monson 
&  Lucretia  Hayt.  Christopher  and  Mary  Smith, 
Sponsors 

Jamaica,  May  12th,  Martha,  daughter  of  William  &  Sarah 
McKrell 


308  ORIGIN    AND    HISTORY 

New  Town,  June  2nd,  Ann  Lewis,  daughter  of  Charles  &  Sarah 
Mc  David 

Jamaica,  June  9th,  Martha  Prion,  daughter  of  John  &  Charit}- 
Thatford 

New  Town,  July  14th,  Thomas,  son  of  Thomas  and  Susanna 
Haight 

Jamaica,  July  21st,  Robert,  son  of  John  and  Sarah  Troup 

Flushing,  July  28th,  William  Lawrence  &  David,  his  son.  Adults 

New  Town,  July  30th.  Mary  Lawrence,  daughter  of  Thomas 
&  Abigail  Billup  Dr.  Richard  Lawrence,  as  Proxy 
for  the  Father.  The  Mother  and  Mrs.  Mary  Law- 
rence, Sponsors 

Jamaica,  Sep  ist,  Eldred,  son  of  Samuel  and  Catalina  Eldred 

New  Town.  Sep.  15,  Judith  Rosevelt,  daughter  of  Timothy  & 
Sarah  Roach  Sponsors,  Mrs.  Rosevelt,  and  the 
Parents 

Flushing,  Septr  29th,  Thomas,  son  of  \Vm  and  Eve  Hannahs 

Flushing,  Octobr  23rd,  Abby  Morrel,  Elizabeth  Burling,  John 
Morrcl,    Sarah    Morrel,   Adults 

New  Town,  Octobr  27th,  Catharine,  daughter  of  Moris  &  Cath- 
arine Hazzard 

Flushing,  Novbr  19th.  Clarissa  Rodman,  an  Adult 

Horatio  Gates,  son  of  Francis  and  Elizabeth  Lewis 

Decb  1st,  Mary  Fowler,  Jane  Fowler.  Margaret  Roe,  Adults 

Thomas  Roe.  Nathaniel  Roe,  Gilbert  Roe,  Benja- 
min Roe,  Silas  Roe.  Eliza  Roe,  Ann  Roe,  Children 
of  Joseph  and  Ann  Roe 

At  the  same  time  Elizabeth  &  John.  Children  of 
Garret  and  Cornelia  Nostrant 

Jamaica,  Dec.  I5tli.  Mary  Ann,  daughter  of  Nathaniel  and  Eliza- 
beth Betts  The  Mother,  John  &  Mary  Dudley. 
Sponsors 

New  Town.  Dec.  29th,  Nathaniel,  son  of  \\'illiam  and  Elizabeth 
Betts 

1794 

Flushing,  Feby  2.  Baptized  Thomas,  son  of  John  &  Sarah  Hicks 

Sponsors,    David    Titus,    Thomas    Hicks,    and    the 

mother 
Jamaica,  Feby  5th,  Baptized  Eleanor,  daughter  of  John  &  Mary 

Hincksman 


OF    GRACE    CHURCH  309 

Newtown,   Feby  9th,    Baptized    Elizabeth,   daughter   of   Henry 
&  Winifred  Van  Allen 

Wm  Hammell,  Rectr. 

Jamaica,    Feby.    26th,    Baptized    Sarah,    daughter   of   Hulett    & 
Charlotte  Creed 

New  Town,  March  2nd,  Baptized  Anna  Catharine,  daughter  of 
Daniel  &  Ellen  Rapelye 
23rd,  Baptized  Gilbert,  son  of  Joseph  &  Sarah  Tomp- 
kins 

Jamaica,  April  2nd,  Baptized  John,  son  of  John  West  &  Jane 
Welling 

New  Town,  May  4th,  Baptized  Elizabeth,  daughter  of  Edward 
&  Sarah  Greenoak 

Newtown,  June  15,  Baptized  Patience,  daughter  of  David  &  Je- 
mima Moore 

Baptized    also    Henry,    son    of   Anthony    &    Anna 
Barkley    The  Parents  &  Peter  Rosevelt,  Sponsors. 

Newtown,  June  22nd,  Baptized  Lydia,  daughter  of  John  &  Mar- 
tha Burroughs 

Jamaica,  June  29,  Baptized  Charles,  son  of  Joseph  &  Bonnella 
Sealy 

Flushing,  on  same  day  Baptized  William,  son  of  John  Hutchins 
&  Anna  Smith 

New  Town,  Sep.   14th,  Baptized  Margaret,  daughter  of  David 
&  Eunice  Van  Wickly 

Wm  Hammell,  Rectr 

Jamaica,  Decbr.  9th,  Baptized  Robert  &  George  Benjamin,  chil- 
dren of  Charles  &  Sarah  McNeile 

1795 

New  Town,  Jany  21st,  Agreeable  to  my  Consent  in  a  note  from 

Mr.  Richard  Wiggins,  The  Revd.  Mr  Sands  Bap- 
tized his  child  by  the  name  of  Richard,  on  the  i6th 
of  October  last 
Newtown,  March   15th,  Baptized  John,  son  of  David  &  Mary 
Purdy 

Joseph  Woodred,   son  of  Henry  &  Nelly   Beadel, 
Abrm    Duryee,    the    Father,    and    Mrs.    Woodred 
sponsors 
Richard  Betts,  son  of  John  &  Ann  Waters 


310  ORIGIN    AND    HISTORY 

Newtown.  April  6th,   Frances,   daughter  of  Thomas   &  Abigail 

Billup 
Jamaica,  April  7th,  Baptized  Stephen  Hicks,  an  Adult  and  Maria, 

daughter  of  Stephen  &  Mary  Hicks 
Flushing,  May  14th,  Baptized  Ann  Louisa,  daughter  of  John  & 

Sarah  Hicks  The  mother,  Samuel  Titus,  and  Elias 

Hicks  sponsors 
Jamaica,  May  25th,   Baptized  John   Tanner,   son   of  Samuel  & 

Elizabeth  Welling 

1795 

New  Town,  Feby.  22,  Baptized  George  an  Adult  belonging  to 
Peter  Culver  of  Bushwick,  &  Diana,  daughter  of 
the  above  &  Jane  belongs  to  Peter  Duryee 

New  Town,  June  7th,  Baptized  James,  son  of  James,  a  Freeman 
&  Diana  belongs  to  Mr.  Devoise,  at  Fresh  pond 

Jamaica,  February  ist,  1796,  By  the  Rev  Chs  Seabury,  Thomas 
Colgan,  son  of  John  &  Sarah  Troup 

Musqueto  Cove,  Feby  24th,  1796  Daniel  Whitehead  &  Maria, 
children  of  Daniel  W.  and  Elizabeth  Kissam 

Jamaica,  Augt  21st,  1796,  By  the  Revd  Mr  Elias  Cooper,  of 
Philipseburgh  baptized  Mary  Ann,  grand  daughter 
of  John  &  Mary  Hinckman  son  of  said  John  & 
Mary,  who  where  the  God  Father  &  Mother 
Leana,  daughter  of  John  West  Welling,  and  Jenny, 
his  wife 

Mary,  daughter  of  Joseph  &  Cathae  Thatford 
Sarah  Eliza,  daughter  of  John  &  Eliza  Battin 

Octob  9th,  Baptized  by  the  Revd  Mr.  Samuel  Haskill  of  Peeks- 
kill,  William,  son  of  John  &  Charity  Thatford 

Dec.  25th.  Baptized  by  the  Rev.  Mr.  Ratoone,  of  New  York. 
Mary,  daughter  of  John  &  Cathe  Hinchman 

1797 

Jany  2,  Baptized  by  the  Revd.  Mr  Van  Dyck,  of  New  Town 
John  Smith,  son  of  James  and  Margaret  Mackre) 

March  i6th,  Baptized,  by  the  Revd.  Mr.  Raynor  of  Elizabeth 
Town  Geo:  Hulet,  son  of  Hulet  &  Charlotte  Creed 
Stephen,  son  of  Stephen  &  Mary  Hicks,  Sponsors, 
the  Father  &  Mr.  Carpenter,  the  Grandmother 

At  Jamaica,  By  the  Rev.  Mr.  E.  D.  Ratoone,  of  N.  Y. 

April  14th,  Thomas,  son  of  Samuel  and  Elizabeth  Welling 


OF    GRACE    CHURCH  311 

June  25th,  Robert,  son  of  Joseph  &  Bonnella  Sealy — born 
Augt   19th,  Ann,  born    17  March    1792,  daughter  of  Willm   & 

Martha  Puntine 

Mary,    born    March    20,    1795    daughter   of   Willm 

&  Martha  Puntine 

Henry,  born  Jany  20,  1797  son  of  Willm  &  Martha 

Puntine  Father  &  Mother,  Sponsors. 
By  the  Revd  Dr.  Beach 

Sept  — ,  Henry,  born  ,  son  of  Samuel  and  Eldert 

By  the  Revd.  Mr  Ratoone 

Dec.  25th,  John,  born  Augt.  3d,  1797,  son  of  John  &  Elizabeth 

Brown    The  Father  &  Mother  were  the  Sponsors 
By  the  Revd.  Mr  Ratoone  at  Amboy 
1801 
Augt.  6th,  Ruth,  daughter  of  William  &  Margaret  Smith,  aged 

31,  wife  of  Joseph  Marsh,  of  Perth  Amboy. 

Edmund  Bainbridge,  aged  27,  on  the  22  of  April 

1802 
Baptisms  by  the  Revd.  E.  D.  Rattoone,  Rector  of  Grace  Church, 

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314  ORIGIN    AND    HISTORY 

COPY   OF   CALVAN    WHITE    MEMDM    FOUND    IN    YE 

BOOK 

1803,    Married  Peter  Pilyoun  to  Ann  Hinchman 
1803,    Octobr,  Robert  Degruske  to  Fanny  Morrell 

BAPTIZED 

1803,  Alexander,  son  of  John  &  Sarah  Troups,  and  sarvent  girle 

Silve 
Matilda,  daughter  of  John  &  Pheba  Welling 
Elizabeth,       ditto        Joseph   &   Penela  Sealy 
Eliza,  ditto        Richard  &   Deborah  Van   Dam 

Sarah.  ditto        William    &  Puntine 

Meriamen       ditto  of  Nemiah  &  Elizth  Simonson 

1804,  Alex.  Hamilton,  (son)  of  Geo:  &  Mary  Codwise 

BURIED 

1803,  Catharine,  Wife  of  John  Hinchman 
Wife  of  William  Puntine 

Miss  Eve  Depeyster  Wife  of  John  Skidmore 
Widw  Skinner,  mother  of  Abra :  Skinner,  Esq 
Elizabeth,  daughter  of  Josiah  &  Elizh  Brown 

1804,  April  7th,   Mary  the   wife  of  Christopher  Smith   Buried 

at  New  York 
Oliver,  son  of  Charles  &  Sarah  McNiel 

GRACE  CHURCH,  JAMAICA.  L.  I.  BY  GEO.  STREBECK. 

1805,  May  12,  Baptized  Caroline  daughter  of  John  and  Charity 

Thatford.  She  was  born  the  25  April  1805;  and  presented 
to  Baptism  by  the  Parents. 

July  21.  Baptized  Elizabeth,  daughter  of  Stephen  and  Mary 
Hicks.  She  was  born  19  Feby  1805,  and  presented  to  Bap- 
tism by  Parents. 

Same  day.  Baptized  Sarah  Phcbe,  daughter  of  Daniel  and  Eliza- 
beth Remsen :  She  was  born  the  16  March  1804  and  pre- 
sented to  Baptism  by  her  mother  and  Jane  Bright  her 
grandmother. 

August  18,  Baptized,  Mary,  daughter  of  Hezekiah  &  Maria  Free- 
man. She  was  born  the  8th  of  Jany'  1804,  and  presented  to 
Baptism  by  James  Morrell  &  her  mother 


OF    GRACE    CHURCH  3 15 

Same  day,  Baptized  Marian,  born  Novr.  5,  1798  and  Eliza,  born 
20  Novr  1803,  both  daughters  of  John  &  Elizabeth  Voor- 
heis,  presented  to  Baptism  by  James  Morrell  &  his  wife 

September  8,  Baptized  Isaac,  son  of  Jerimiah  &  Elizabeth  Sy- 
monson  (of  Staten  Island)  he  was  born  the  30  April 
1804,  and  presented  to  Baptism  by  his  Parents 

Sep.  15,  Baptized  George  Ireland,  son  of  Joseph  &  Penella 
Sealy  born  28  of  August  1805,  and  presented  to  Baptism 
by  his  Parents 

October  13,  Baptized  Stephen  Lott,  son  of  Timothy  &  Catharine 
Nostrandt,  he  was  born  31st  of  Augt  1805,  and  presented 
to  Baptism  by  his  Parents 

BAPTIZED  BY  ANDREW  FOWLER 

1806  June  22,  Theodore  Octavius,  son  of  George  and  Mary 
Codwise,  Sponsors,  David  and  Jane  Codwise 

July  6,  Samuel  Welling,  son  of 

20,  Mary,  daughter  of  Thomas,  a  black  man  then  with  Mr. 
Mills  and  his  wife  Elizabeth,  Parents,  Sponsors 

August  17,  James,  son  of  Andrew  and  Catharine  Napier.  Par- 
ents, Sponsors.    James  was  born  June  16,  1806 
21,  Townsend  &  Samuel,  sons  of  John  Hewlett,  Junr.  and 
Mary  his  wife  Townsend  was  born 

Oct.  5,  Margaret  Addra  Ann,  daughter  of  Peter  Poillon  and  Ad- 
dra  his  wife.  This  child  was  born  the  21st  day  of  the 
preceeding  April. 

GRACE  CHURCH,  JAMAICA,  L.  I.  REVD  E.  D.  BARRY, 
OFFICIATING  MINISTER 

1808  Baptized,  Jany  loth  1808  by  Revd  Edmund  D  Barry.  Dan- 
iel Tuttle,  son  of  John  &  Margaret  Mackarel,  born  i8th 
January  1808 

Baptized,  July  17th  1808,  by  Revd  E.  D.  Barry,  Daniel  Edward, 
son  of  William  &  Ann  Sale,  born  24th  April  1808 

Same  day.  Baptized  Anna  Maria  daughter  of  George  &  Mary 
Codwise,  born  28th  February  1808 

Baptized,  August  14th  1808  by  the  Revd  Mr  Harris  Thomas 
Pelham,  son  of  William  &  Alice  McNiel,  born  i6th  June 
1808 


316  ORIGIN    AND    HISTORY 

Baptized,  August  14th  1808  by  the  Revd  Mr  Harris  Thomas 
Pelham,  son  of  WilHam  &  Ahce  McNiel,  born  i6th  June 
1808 

Baptized  October  9.  1808  by  Revd.  Mr  Barry  Sarah  Rowland, 
wife  of  Jonathan  Rowland 

Same  day  Baptized  Alice  Bannister,  daughter  of  John  &  Glor- 
iana  Welling  born  7th  May  1804  Baptized  Margaret  Her- 
riman  daughter  of  John  &  Gloriana  Welling,  born  17th 
February  1806 

Baptized  Novr  6  1808  by  the  Revd  Mr  Barry  Talman  James 
Waters,  born  30th  June  1792,  also  Elizabeth  Cebra  Waters 
born  4th  May  1795.   Adults 

Baptized  Nov.  12th  1808,  by  Revd  Mr.  E.  D.  Barry  Elizabeth 
Cornelia  Ludlow,  daughter  of  John  &  Catharine  Hoog- 
land — Infant. 

Same  day  Baptized,  Anna  Puntine,  wife  of  William  Puntine 

Baptized  Nov.  26,  1808  By  the  Revd  Mr  Barry  Harriet,  daugh- 
ter of  Abraham  &  Elizabeth  Eldert,  born  19th  Novbr  1808 

Baptized  by  the  Revd  E.  D.  Barry  April  i6th  1809  Sarah  Juli- 
ana, daughter  of  Moses  &  Sarah  Miller  born  24th  Jan. 
1809 

At  the  same  time  John  Betts,  son  of  Andrew  and  Catharine  Na- 
pier, born  March  26th  1809 
The  above   Baptisms  during  the  time   of  Revd   Mr   Barry 
officiating  at  Grace  Ch.  Jamaica  were  copied  from   a  list 
made  out  by  him  by  Timothy  Clowes 

Confirmation.  Rt  Revd  Bishop  Moore  visited  Grace  Ch.  Ja- 
maica 15th  October  1808  and  confirmed  thirty  persons 

Inserted  by  request  of  the  Parents.  Baptized  at  the  City  of 
Jersey  (N.  J.)  Sarah,  daughter  of  Philip  &  Sally  Wil- 
liams loth  Feb.  1809   Timothy  Clowes 

GRACE  CHURCH,  JAMAICA,  L.  I.  TIMOTHY  CLOWES, 
DEACON  OFFICIATING  MINISTER 

May  14th  1809  Baptized  by  Revd  Mr  Jones.  James,  son  of 
Jonathan  and  Sarah  Rowland  born  30th  March  1809 

Baptized  June  4,  1809  Mary  Ann  daughter  of  Nathaniel  and 
Mary  Austin,  born  September  5,   1799 

Baptized  June  25th  1809,  William  Henry,  son  of  Robert  and 
Jane  Carter  of  New  York,  born  7th  April  1809 


OF    GRACE    CHURCH  317 

Baptized  July  2n  1809  Harman  Pruyn,  Son  of  Joseph  and 
Catherine  Thatford,  born  24th  May  1809 

Baptized  July  16,  1809  Jacob  Miller,  Adult,  about  18  years  of  age 

Same  day,  John  son  of  Joseph  and  Bonella  Sealy  born  2nd  Octo- 
ber 1808 

Baptized  August  13th  1809,  Ann  Eliza,  daughter  of  Samuel  & 
Eliza  Carman,  born  28th  February  1808 

Baptized  August  27th  1809  John  a  servant  of  John  Troup  Adult 
of  about  fifty  years  of  age  (black) 

Baptized  November  9,  1809  Benjamin  Roe,  son  of  Sylvanus  & 
Mary  Halsey,  born   i6th  September  1809 

Baptized  February  4th  1810  Eliza  daughter  of  William  &  Ann 
Sale  born  19th  November  1809 

Baptized  February  11,  1810  Sarah  daughter  of  Thomas  and 
Nelly  Mills  born  —(black) 

Baptized  April  15,  1810  Washington  Joseph,  son  of  Samuel  T 
and  Eliza  Carman  born   17  Feb   1810 

REGISTER  OF  GRACE  CHURCH  JAMAICA,  BY  GILBT 
H.   SAYRES   OFFICIATING 

MARRIAGES 

August  4th  1810  Married  Abiather  Rhodes  and  Frances  Hewlett 
May  9th   181 1   Married  David  Piatt  &  Anne  Rowland,  both  of 

this  Parish 
June  6th  181 1  Married  John  B.  Church  of  N.  York  &  Mary  P. 

Austin  of  this  Parish 
June  22,  181 1   Married  William  Van  Nostrand  &  Martha  Prine 

Thatford,  of  this  Parish 
Nov.  3d  181 1  Married  James  McGee  to  Eliza  Weeks,  of  Flushing- 
May  30th  1812  Married  Daniel  Craft  &  Deborah  Abrahams  of 

Far  Rockaway 
July  1st  1812  Married  Doct  Nathan  Shelton  to  Miss  Eliza  Hen- 
rietta Starman 
July  4th  181 2  Married  Joseph  Hendrickson  to  Ann  Gildersleeve 
Same  time,  Jeremiah  Roberts  to  Ann  Cumings 
March  3d  181 3  Married  Peter  Stoter  to  Ann  Bennett 
May  6,  1813  Benjamin  Tredwell  Kissam  to  Miss  Peggy  Kissam, 
the  former  of  N.  York,  the  latter  of  this  Parish 


318  ORIGIN    AND    HISTORY 

June  19th  1813  Married  Richard  Cornell  to  Charity  Van  Sicklen 

of  this  place 
August   2 1  St    1 81 3    Married    Stephen    Van    Nostrand    to    Sarah 

Strickland 
September  5th    1813   Alarried   John    Durling   to    Lavinia    (both 

blacks) 
Oct.  23d   1813   Married  Cato   Bates  to   Elsey  Van  Zants,  both 

blacks 
Feb.  loth  1814  Married,  Benjamin  Welling  to  Hannah  Rowland, 

both  of  this  Parish 
August  28th   1814  Married  Henry  Story  to  Eliza  Bowne,  both 

from  Brooklynn 
August  29th  1814  Married  Thomas  Southard  to  Sarah  Montress, 

both  from  Hemstead 
Novr  I2th  1814  Married  James  Ferris  to  Keziah  Box,  of  Flushing 
Married  Feb.   12th   1815  Obadiah  P.   Leach  to  Susan   Holland, 

both  of  this  Parish 
Married  May  4th  181 5  James  S.  Bailey  of  New  York  to  Eliza 

S.  Waters  of  this  Parish 
Married  August  27,   1815  Andrew  Allen  of  Phila  to  Clara   La 

Combe  of  New  York 
Married  Deer.  loth  1815  Silas  Roe  to  Sarah  Denton,  both  of  this 

place 
Married  Dec.  23,  1815  John  Flower  to  Eliza  Eleanor  Weeks  of 

New  York 
Married  Jan.    i,   1816   Plato  Rhodes  to  Catherine — (blacks)   of 

this  place 
Married  Jany  3d    1816  Isaac   Bennet  to  Juda   Burrows,   all   of 

Hemstead 
Married  March  28,  1816  John  Nostrand  to  Mary  Ludlum  of  this 

place 
Married  May  5,  1816  Aaron  Palmer  of  N.  York  to  Sarah  Foster 

of  this  place 
Married  July  20th  1816  Abraham  Le  Branthwaite  to  Mary  Mar- 
garet Dewint  all  of  New  York 
Married  October  13th  1816  John  Van  Beuren  to  Elizabeth  Scott 

Aspinwall  of  this   Parish 
Married  Novr  9,  1816  John  Van  Nostrand  to  Rachel  Hinchman 

both  of  this  Parish 
Married  Nov.  16.  1816  Moses  Kissan  to  Margaret  Reed  (black) 

Both  of  this  place 


OF    GRACE    CHURCH  319 

Married  January  17,  1817  Henry  W.  Warner,  of  New  York,  to 
Anna  Marsh  Bartlett,  of  this  place 

Married  April  5th  1817  Victor  Amede  Pedroni,  of  Bordeaux  to 
Lydia  B.  Vandevoort,  of  this  place 

Married  June  5,  1817  Jeremiah  Ludlum  to  Silva  Troup  (blacks) 
of  this  place 

Married  May   10,   1817  at  Rahway,  N.  J.  Anthony  Woodward 
Esq  to  Mrs  Elizabeth  Mott 

Married  August  2d   1817  Jacob  Cozine  of  New  Lotts  to  Jane 
Isabella  Sprowls,  of  this  Parish 

Married  Novr.  5th  1817  Peter  Ousterman  &  Jane  Bloome 

Married  April  22,   1818  Charles  Beckwith  and  Nanchy  Remsen 

Married  August  ist  1818  Benjamin  T.  Kissam  and  Peggy  Kis- 
sam  of  this  Parish 

Married  Nov.   14th   1818  John  B.  Codwise  and  Eliza  Creed  of 
this   Parish 

Married    9    Jany    1819    Richard    Johnson    &    Susannah    Beets 
(blacks) 

Married  March  15,  1819  Augustus  Gaston  Camagne  &  Susannah 
Johnson  of  New  York 

Married  April   i,   1819  Thomas  Valentine  &  Sarah   Brooks  of 
Flushing 

Married  8th  May  1819  Abraham  Remsen  &  Deborah  B.  Down- 
ing of  Oyster  Bay 

Married  Oct.  23,  1819  Plato  Lawrence  &  Rebecca  Smith   (col- 
oured people)  of  this  place 

Married  Deer.  8,  1819  Stephen  Fowler  and  Martha  Fowler,  of 
Flushing 

Married  Jany  13,  1820  John  Smith  &  Ann  Thatford,  of  this  place 

Married   July    nth    1820  Edward   Cossart   and   Adelaide   Cornell 
of  Success. 

Married    Deer.    25,    1820    Stephen    James    &    Ellen    Townsend 
(blacks) 

Married  July  15th  182 1  Thompson  Town  and  Sarah  Ann  Bur- 
ling of  Hempstead 

Married  August   nth    1821   James   Portley  &   Elizabeth   Frazy 
(coloured) 

Married  August  20,  1821  Wm.  Stringham  and  Sarah  Doxy,  of 
Rockaway 


320  ORIGIN    AND    HISTORY 

Married  Nov.  22,  1821  Toney  Edsall  and  Catherine  Ditmis  (col- 
oured) 

Married  March  3d  1822  Gilbert  V.  Hewlett  and  Eliza  Nostrand, 
both  of  Rockaway 

Married  March  8th  1822  Samuel  Hedges  &  Sarah  Jarvis,  col- 
oured 

Married  March  8th  1822  John  Henry  Marshall  and  Matilda 
Winthrop  of  New  York 

also  at  the  same  time  as  above  Allen  \V.  Hardie  and  Caroline 
Cox,  also  of  New  York 

Married  Septr.  4,  1822  Charles  Johnson  and  Eliza  Goodman 
of  Newtown 

Married  Oct.  12,  1822  Epentus  Wood  and  Phebe  Smith 

Married  Deer,  nth  1822  Wm  Smith  &  Eliza  Van  Nostrand. 
of  Success 

Married  Jany  9,  1823  Michael  Ulshoffer  and  Marian  Gracie 

Married  Jany.  26,  1823  Lewis  Hewlett  and  Sarah  Ann  DeMott 
of  Rockaway 

Married  Jany.  30,  1823  Benjamin  Lawrence  &  Phebe  Rowland 

Married  Feby.  5,  1823  Cornelius  Fowler  and  Mary  Van  Nos- 
trand of  Success 

Married  August  2d  1823  Abraham  Sypher  and  Abbey  Holmes 

Married  Nov.  8th  1823  Oliver  Hewlett  &  Cornelia  Seaman,  of 
Rockaway 

Married  January  4th,  1824,  John  G.  George  and  Sarah  Zantz  both 
of  New  York 

Married  March  21,  1824  Samuel  Johnson  and  Margaret  Watts 
(coloured  people) 

Married  April  17,  1824  James  Champlin  &  Hannah  Sprowls 
(Blacks) 

Married  May  15,  1824  Jacob  Woods  and  Margaret  Betts 
(blacks) 

Married  July  18,  1824  Benjamin  L.  Cornell  and  Elizabeth  Field 

same  day  Elias  Harrison  &  Susan  Smith  (blacks) 

Married  August  9,  1824  John  Smith  &  Mary  Ann  Roc  (blacks) 

Married  vSept.  4,  1824  Edward  Burdett  &  Mary  Thomas,  of 
Brooklyn 

Do  same  day  James  Gilbert  Morrcll  and  Margaret  Lovveree.  of 
Flushing 


OF    GRACE    CHURCH  321 

Married  Sept.   ii,   1824  George  Riner  and  Jane  Doughty,  both 

of  Rockaway 
Married  Sept.  20,  1824  Pearson  Watts  and  Elizabeth  Shaw 
Married   Sept.   22,    1824   Charles   Wright   and   Jane   Lawrence   of 

Flushing 
Married  Jany   3,    1825   Samuel   Vandewater   &   Maria   Allen   of 

New  York 
Married  April  15   1825  John  Spragg  and  Mehetible  Place 
Married  July  3d  1825  Isaac  Eldert  and  Mary  Carpenter  of  this 

place 
Married  Sept.  15,  1825  John  B.  Higbie  and  Aletta  Anne  Hen- 

drickson  of  Springfield 
Married  Sept.    18,   1825   Isaac   Cornell   and   Sarah   Gildersleeve, 

of  New  York 
Married   October  29,   1825  Jacob   Williams   and  Judah  Waters 

(blacks) 
Married  Dec.   19th   1825  Thomas   Brown  and  Julia  Amberman 

(Blacks) 
Married   March  27th   1826   Francis  Williams  and   Eliza   Smith 

(blacks) 
Married    April  1826    James    Jones    and    Lavinia    Durling 

(blacks) 
Married  June  8th  1826  Thomas  Mott  and  Mary  Mott,  of  Rock- 
away 
Married  June  15,  1826  Gilbert  D.  Craft  and  Fanny  H.  Fosdick 
Married  June  22th  1826  Silvenus  Hunter  and  Dorothea  Punnett 

(coloured   people)    of   Flushing. 
Married  July  24,  1826  George  G.  Mitchill  and  Mary  Elizabeth 

Lawrence,  of  Flushing 
Married   July   29,    1826   Peter  Van    Ess   and   Angelina   Cornell 

(blacks)   from  New  Town 
Married  August  2.^,  1826  Francis  Henry  Contoit  and  Ann  Green 

of  this  place. 
Married  Nov.    i8th   1826  Wm  Jones   &  Philis   Santon 
Married  March  3d  1827  John  Coe  &  Phebe  Denton. 
Married  March  24,  1827  Anthony  Mulkin  &  Rosanna  Mayhew 

(coloured) 
Married   Sept.    16,    1827   Daniel    Losey   and   Maria    Remsen,   of 

Brooklyn 
Married  Nov.   14,  1827  Henry  Crommeline  and  Harriet  Hallett 


322  ORIGIN    AND    HISTORY 

Married  Jany  2.  1828  John  H.  Valentine  and  Martha  H.  Denton 

Married    Feby.   6,    1828   Wm    Roc   and    Phebe    Kissam,   both   of 
Flushing 

Married  March  26,  1828  John  A.  Gurley  and  Margaret  Hallctt 

Married  April  3d  1828  Jesse  Hoyt  and  Cornelia  Thurston 

Married   April    5,    1828    Silvenus   Townscnd    &    Hannah    Trecd- 
well  (coloured) 

Married  July  4,  1828  John  Mitchell,  of  New  York,  and  Charlotte 
Rodman,  of  this  Place. 

Married  July  loth  1828  John  Winslow  Whitman  of  Boston,  and 
Sarah  Helen  Powers,  of  Providence.  (R.  I.) 

Married  June  22,  1828  Griffin  and  Widow,  Helen  Roe,  of 

Flushing 

Married  August  31,  1828.  Richard  Sealy  and  Catherine  Gilleen, 
of  this  place 

Married  Jany.  14,  1829  Harvey  D.  Hewlett  &  FfTy  Nostrand 

Married  April  16,  1829  Thomas  Van  Nostrand  &  Helen  Schenck 

Married  by  Revd  G.  H.  Sayres,  June  20,  1829  James  Carpenter 
&  Jane  Smith,  of  Flushing. 

July  12,  1829  Married  by  Revd  G.  H.  Sayres,  Charles  W.  Pit- 
man &  Ann  Maria  Nicholls,  both  of  Brooklyn 

July  25,   1829  Married  by  Revd  G.  H.   Sayres,  William  Haley 
&  Rachael  Betts  (coloured) 

Oct.  II,  1829  Married  by  Revd  G.  H.  Sayres,  William  Creed  & 
Jane  E.  Comwell,  of  this  place 

Jany.   3d   1830  Married  by   Revd.   G.   H.    Sayres,   William   Stew- 
art &  Susan  Garrison   (blacks) 
Addenda  by  Revd.  Wm.  L.  Johnson  (see  Register  No.  2) 

Aug.  5th  1830  Married  James  Rowland  &  Hannah  R.  Seaman, 
Jamaica. 

FUNERALS 

Burried,  Sept.  18,  1824  Mrs  Hallworth 

Sept.  22,   1824  By  Revd  Mr  E.   M.  Johnson,  Isaac,  infant  son 

of  G.  H.  Sayres. 
Jany  1825  Mr  Benjamin  Rowland,  of  this  Parish 
Feby.  28,  1825  Widow  Skidmore,  of  this  place 
April  15,  1825  The  Widow  of  Dudley  Brown,  of  Brooklyn 
May  10,  1825  Mrs.  Oldfield,  Widow  of  Joseph  Oldfield  of  this 

Parish. 


OF    GRACE    CHURCH  323 

July  1825  An   Infant  child  of  Thomas  Valentine  of  New 

York 
July  22,  1825  Miss  Habersham,  of  Savannah,  Georgia 
July  An  Infant  child  of  James  G.  King,  of  New  York 

August  Miss  Welling,  daughter  of  John  Welling,  deed,  of 

Brooklyn 
Nov.  13,  1825  The  Wife  of  Wm  Smith  of  Foster's  Meadows 
Deer.  17,  1825  Major  Charles  McNeill,  of  this  Parish 
March    11,   1826  Mrs.   Simison,  and  James   Cortelyou,  both  of 

this  Place 
March  20,  1826  Mrs  Welling 
May  14,  1826  Sarah  Jones,  a  coloured  woman 
Sept.  1826  A  child  of  Silas  Roe 

Sept.  15,  1826  A  daughter  of  Nathaniel  Simmons 
Sept.   27,    1826   Burried   an    Infant   Child   of    Wm    Sinclair,   of 

Charleston 
Oct.  14,  1826  Burried  Christopher  Troup 
Burried  Oct.  20,  1826,  Alexander  H.  Codwise 
Burried  Feby       1827  The  Wife  of  Wm  Thatford,  from  N.  York 
Burried  Feby  2d  1827  Mrs  Tapp,  of  this  Parish 
May  2d  1827  Burried  Hon.  Rufus  King,  of  this  Parish 
August  1827  The  Infant  daughter  of  T.  C.  Pinkney 

August  23,  Wm  Beckley,  of  this  place 

August  25  Elizabeth  Brewer,  of  this  parish 

Sept.  2,  1827  A  child  of  David  Piatt,  deed. 
Burried  Oct  6,  1827,  Mr.  Clements,  of  this  parish 
Burried  June  15,  1828,  Wm  McKee  of  this  parish 
Burried  August       1828  Elizabeth  Brashier,  widow,  of  this  parish 
Burried  Sept.  i,  1828  Lewis  E.  A.  Eigenbrodt,  Senior  Warden 

of  this  Church  for  many  years. 
Burried  Sept.  2,  1828  Cornelia  Hoogland,  wife  of  John  Hoog- 

land,  of  this  parish 
Burried  May        1829  Sarah,  the  wife  of  Silas  Roe 
Burried  August  1829  Gilbert  Roe  of  New  York 
Burried  Oct.  8th  1829  Capt.  Joseph  Roe,  of  this  parish 
Burried  Deer.  7,  1829  Mrs.  Vandeburgh,  of  this  parish 

DEATHS 

Anno  1790  Burried  by  Me  W.  H. 

At  Jamaica,  July  —  The  Widow  Betts 


324  ORIGIN    AND    HISTORY 

At  Newtown  Augst  —  Mrs.  Patience  Titus,  wife  of  David  Titus 

At  Flushing  Augst  —  A  Son  of  Mr.  Fairchild 

At   Jamaica   Sept.    21st    Mrs    Mary    Ogden,    wife    of    Dr.   Jacol) 

Ogden 
Flushing,  Octobr.  or  Nov.  Mrs.  Beesley  wife  of  Mr.  Beesley 
Anno  1791 

Jamaica  Jany   i8th  Miss  Margaret  Waters 
At  New  Town  Feby  17th  Woodred,  son  of  the  Widow  Woodred 

At  Jamaica  April  27  Mrs Seely  of  Fosters'  Meadows 

At  Flushing  May  ist  Mr.  Robert  Crommeline 

At  Jamaica  Augst  9th  Mr.  Samuel  Sackett,  Sr 

At  Flushing  Sept.  29th  Mrs  Mary  Haviland 

At  Jamaica  Octobr  i6th  Samuel,  child  of  Samuel  and  Elizabeth 

Sackett 
Anno  1792 

At  Jamaica  Jany.   i6th  Capt.  Daniel  Whitehead 
At  Jamaica  May  3rd  Joseph  Van  Nostrand 

At  Hallets  Cove  July  2nd  Greenoak 

At  New  Town  Sep.  nth  Richard  Morrell 
Anno  1793 

At  Jamaica  June  6th son  of  Isaac  and  Mary  Pettit 

Burried  at  Flushing  August  i8th  Mrs  Aspinwall,  wife  of  Wil- 
liam Aspinwall,  of  New  York 
At  Jamaica  August  23d  Miss  Gersia  Combs,   formerly  of  this 

Congregation 
At  Jamaica  Sepbr  ist  Nathaniel   Lewis,  Child  of  Nathaniel  & 

Elizabeth  Betts 
At  Jamaica  Sep  9th   Elizabeth   Morris,  a  child  of  Joseph   and 

Elizabeth  Morris 
At  Flushing  Octobr  i8th  John,  a  child  of  John  Hutchins  &  Ann 

Smith 
At  Jamaica,  Dec.  8th  Miss  Emelia  Betts 
At  New  Town  Dec.  23,  Mrs  Lydia  Boroughs 
Anno  1794 

At  New  York  Jany.  6th  Samuel  Brownjohn  from  Jamaica. 
At  New  Town  Jany.  28th  Miss  Elizabeth  Alsop 
At  Flushing  June  4th  Widow  Lowrie 
At  New  Town  June   15  Paul,  a  Child  of   Peter  and  Anna  Van- 

dervoort 
At  Flushing  Sept  13th  Mrs  Lawrence,  of  Fresh  Meadows 


OF    GRACE    CHURCH  325 

At  Jamaica  Dec.   loth  Mr  Willet,  of  New  York 

At  Jamaica  Dec.  15th  Burried  Robert,  son  of  Charles  &  Sarah, 

McNeill 
At  Jamaica  Dec.  28th  Mr  Benjamin  Carpenter 

1795 

At  Flushing-  Feby.  8  Ann  Louisa,  a  child  of  John  &  Sarah  Hicks 
by  Revd  Charles  Seabury 

This  is  to  Certify  that  the  following  Funerals  were  attended  by 
me.  Elijah  D.  Rattoone, 

Rector  of  Grace  Church,  Jamaica. 

The  funeral  of  Mrs Dissosway  was  attended  by  Revd  Mr. 

Barry  June  26,  1808 

The  funeral  of  Mrs  Parker  was  attended  by  the  Revd  E.  D.  Barry 
October  —   1808 

The  funeral  of  Mrs  Price  was  attended  bv  Revd  Mr  Barry  Novbr 
6,  1808 

The  funeral  of  Mrs  Woofendale  from   New  York  was  at- 
tended by  Revd  E.  D.  Barry  14th  Decbr  1808 
The  above  funerals  were  taken  from  a  list  kept  by  Revd.  Edmund 

D.  Barry. 

Drowned  on  30th  May  1808  Benjamin  Roe  of  this  Parish 

On  Sunday  June  nth  a  funeral  sermon  was  preached  on  the  occa- 
sion. Timothy  Clowes,  Deacon 

Officiating  in  Grace  Ch.  Jam. 

Burried  August   16,   1809,  Ann  Eliza,  infant  daughter  of  Samuel 

and  Eliza  Carman.  T.  Clowes 

Burried  August  26,  1809  Anna  Roe  of  this  Parish,  aged  16  years 

and  8  months  T.  Clowes 

Burried  August  30th  1809  Sarah  Juliana,  infant  daughter  of  Moses 

&  Sarah  Miller  T.  Clowes 

Burried   September  28th   1809   Sarah   Newman,   wife   of  Richard 

Newman,  aged  32  years  T.  Clowes 

Burried    November    12th    1809  Alexander  Troup,   son   of  John  & 

Sarah  Troup  aged  7  years  T.  Clowes 

Burried  December  17th  1809  William  Newman,  son  of  Richard  & 

Sarah  Newman,  aged  i   year  and  10  mos. 
Burried  February   5th   1810  Catharine  Thatford,  wife  of  Joseph 

Thatford,  of  this  Parish.  Timothy  Clowes 


326  ORIGIN    AND    HISTORY 

Burried  August  21st  1810  Sarah  Morrell,  wife  of  James  Morrell, 

of  this  Parish  Gilbert  H.  Sayres 

Burried  5th  of  April  181 1   Nathaniel  Mills  of  this  Parish 

G.  H.  Sayres. 
Burried  7th  July  181 1  Thomas  Welling,  of  this  Parish 

G.  H.  Sayres 
Burried  August  13th   181 1   Thomas  Ogden  Sacket,  infant  of  Mr. 

Augustus  Sacket 
Burried  August  15th  181 1  Daughter  infant  of 

nURRIALS    BY    REVD   GILBERT    H.    SAYRES 

Sept  4th  181 1  An  infant  of  Mr  McKee 

Oct.  10,  181 1  An  infant  of  Mr.  John  W.  Welling,  of  this  Parish 

Oct.  13,  181 1  Sarah  Hinsksman  of  this  Parish 

Oct.  13,  1811  Wm  Mackrell.  a  lad  about  14  years  of  age 

Oct.  31,  181 1  An  infant  of  Mr  Johnson 

Feby.  27,  1812  Joseph  Oldfield,  of  this  Parish 

April  6th   1812  At  East  Woods.  Mr.  John  Hewlett.  Esq  of  this 

Parish 
April  14,  1812  James  Macrell.  Jun.  of  this  Parish 
April  18,  181 2  Peter  Mills,  of  this  Parish 
June  5th  1812  Daniel  Kissam,  Esq  of  North  Hemstead 
June  6th  181 2  Richard  Van-lew  of  this  Parish 
June  30th  1812  John  Van-lew,  Senr.  of  this  Parish 
July   1st   181 2  A  child  of  about  4  years  of   age.   a   daughter   of 

Abraham  Eldert  of  Hell  Gate 
Oct.  16  1812  An  Infant  of  Andrew  and  Catherine  Napier 
March  21st  1813  Mrs.  Welling,  widow  of  the  late  Thomas  Welling 

of  this  Parish 
May  7th  1813  James  Morrell  of  N.  York,  formerly  of  this  Parish 
June  28th  18 1 3  A  daughter  of  Joseph  Thatford,  of  this  Parish 
Septr  II,  1813  Caleb  Mills,  of  this  Parish 
Novr  16.  1 81 3  Mrs  Sarah  McNeill,  wife  of  Major  McNeill,  of  this 

Parish 
Novr  30th   1813   Mrs.  Lavinia   Mott  wife  of  Mr.  Jacob  Mott  of 

New  York 
Decb  12,  1813  Abigail  Ann.  child  of  Willet  &  Elizabeth  Skidmore 

of  this  Parish 
Feby.  25,  1814  A  child  of  Mr  Brown  of  Brooklyn 
March   ist  1814  Lawrence  Roe,  of  Brooklyn,  son  of  Joseph  Roe. 

of  this  Parish 


OF    GRACE    CHURCH  327 

April  19,  1814  a  boy  about  3  years  old  son  of  the  widow  of  Mr 

John  Welling  formerly  of  this  parish 
July  3d   1814  Mr  Josiah  Brown  of  Brooklyn,  by  the  Rt  Rev  Bp 

Hobart 
August  15,  1814  Mrs  Hicks  of  New  York 

Sept  —  1814  A  child  of  Mr  Urias  Hendrickson,  of  this  Parish 
Jany.    15,   181 5   Mrs  Charlotte  Creed,  wife  of   Hewlet  Creed,  of 

this  Parish 
Jan.  21,  1815  A  child  of  Darius  Johnson  of  this  Parish 
Feb.  18,  1815  A  child  of  Andrew  Napier  of  this  Parish 
Oct.  22,  181 5  A  child  of  Mr  Halsey,  of  this  Parish 
May  7,  1815  Josiah  Brown  of  Brooklyn 

Oct.  —  18 1 5  At  Flushing,  a  daughter  of  Mr  Kissam  of  Coobrie  Hill 
Oct.  22,  1815  A  child  of  Mr  Halsey,  of  this  Parish 
Jany  6,  181 5   (6)    Isaac  Jones,  a  son  of  Jonathan  Jones,  of  this 

Parish 
Jany  13  (1816)  Neill  McNeill,  a  son  of  Major  Charles  McNeill 

of  this  Parish 
May  29,  1816  The  wife  of  Oliver  Strickland,  of  this  Place 
June  17,   1816  Miss  Tredwell,  at  Great  Neck,  a  niece  of 

Mr  Benjm  Tredwell,  of  Cow  Neck 
July  6,  1816  Mr  John  Brown  of  New  York 
July  —  1816  Mr  ....   Brown  of  Brooklyn 
August  17,  1816  George  Codwise,  Jun.  of  this  Parish 
Nov.  27,  1816  Sarah  Lating,  of  this  Parish 
January  13th  1817  The  Wife  of  James  Mackrell,  of  New  York 

formerly  of  this  Parish 

May  —  1817  Mr Polhemus,  of  this  Parish 

May  —  1817  Nathaniel  Roe  of  New  York 

July  9th  1817  John  Troup,  of  this  Parish 

August  24,  1817  At  Rockaway  Mr.  Holeman,  late  from  London 

October  —  1817  Addra  Hendrickson  of  this  Parish 

1818  Sarah  Jones,  buried. 

August  8,  1818  Benj  T.  Kissam,  hurried 

1818  Mrs  Hinchman,  from  Brooklyn 

October  1818  Mrs  Van  len  of  this  Parish 
Jany  17,  1819  Sarah  Elizabeth  Hicks 

May  loth  1819  Catherine  Napier,  a  Child  of  Andrew  Napier  of 

this  Parish 
Sept.  18,  1819  Gilbert  Aspinwall  of  this  Place 


328  ORIGIN    AND    HISTORY 

Oct.  3,  1819  James  Mackrell,  formerly  of  this  parish 
May  —  1819  Mary  King,  wife  of  Rufus  King,  Esq  of  this  Parish 
Nov.  2,  1 819  Elizabeth  Puntine,  of  this  place 
Jany  28,  1820  Mrs.  Cortelyeou,  of  this  place 
Fcby.  loth  1820  Mrs.  Simison,  of  Rockaway 
Feby.  29  1820  Stephen  Hicks,  of  this  Parish 
Sept.  2^,  1820 — Col.  Peter  Cortelyou,  of  this  place 
Sept.  27,  1820  Elizabeth  Sproul  of  this  parish 
Oct.  24,  1820  At  Cedar  Swamp  Mrs,  the  wife  of  Richard  Town- 
send,  of  N  York 
Nov.  9,   1820  Catherine.  Infant  daughter  of  Joseph  Thatford 
Jany  29th  1821  A  young  child  of  Obediah  V^alentine 
April  I2th  1821   Richard  Wiggins  of  this  Parish 
August  15  1821  Charles  Welling  of  this  Parish 
Oct.  20,  1821  Hewlett  son  of  Thomas  Cornell,  of  this  place 
Oct.  21,  1821  Nancy  Puntine,  wife  of  Wm  Puntine 
Oct.  22,  1821  John  Waters,  of  this  place 
Dec.  20,  1821  David  Rowland,  of  this  parish,  also 
same  day,  Widow  of  the  late  Richard  Betts,  also  of  this  Parish 
Jany  2^^,   1822  Aaron  Van  Nostrand  of  this   Parish,   for  many 

years  sexton  of  the  Church 
Feby.  9,  1822  Mrs.  Danson  of  this  Parish 
Feby.  15,  1822  Miss  Betts  of  this  Parish 
Sept.  20,  1822  Charity  Thatford,  daughter  of  Joseph  Thatford 

of  this  parish 
Feby.  16,  1823  By  the  Revd  Mr  Eram  M.  Johnson  John  Tillotson 
Sayres,  infant  son  of  Revd  G.  H.  Sayres,  Rector  of  this  Church 
March  23.  1823  Mrs  Waters,  of  this  parish 
March  27,  1823  Mrs  Valentine,  wife  of  Obediah  \^alentine  of  this 

parish 
Oct.  2,  1823  At  Cedar  Swamp,  Isaac  Hersfield,  of  New  York 
July  —  1823  Mrs  Elizabeth  Welling,  wife  of  Samuel  Welling 

of  this  Parish 
August  —  1823  Samuel  Welling  of  this  parish 
Oct.  3d  1823  Jonathan  Jones,  of  Rockaway 
April  23,  1824  Mrs  Katherine  Smith,  of  this  parish 
July   17,   1824  Jonathan  Jones  of  the  Wallabout 
August  9,  1824  Ida  Rowland 


OF    GRACE    CHURCH  329 


BAPTISMS  OF  NEGROES 

Anno  1790 

New  Tow  Augst  8  Baptized  Andrew  &  Harry  children  of 

New  Tow  Septbr  19  William,  Son  of  and  both  be- 
longing to  John  Titus  of  Kings  County 

Jamaica  Sept.  26th  William,  son  of  Peter  and   Elizabeth   both 
the  property  of  Christopher  Smith. 

Jacob,  son  of  Helena,  the  property  of  Mr  Wicoff,  New  Lots 
Peter  belonging  to  Mr.  C.  Smith  and 
Sarah  belonging  to  Nicholas  Jones,   Sponsors 

Anno  1 79 1 

New  Town  May  8th  George,  the  son  of  Tobias,  the  property  of 
Mr  Wm  Londings  and  his  wife 
Diana  the  property  of  the  widow  of  Daniel  Leister 

New  Town,  May  29th  Nancy,  belonging  to  Mr  John  Lawrence 
Esq,  and  Diana  belonging  to  Mr  Cornelius  Leister,  Adults 
Rachel,  daughter  of  France  the  Property  of  the  Widow  of 
Cornelius  Rapeljie,  and  his  wife 
Nancy,  the  property  of  John  Lawrence  Esq 
Frank,  the  son  of  Frank,  the  property  of  Wm  Lawrence 
Esq  and  his  wife 

Diana,  belonging  to  Cornelius  Leister 

Elsie,  daughter  of  Samuel,  the  property  of  Jacobus  Riker, 
and  his  wife 
Ruth,  belonging  to  Samuel  Riker 

Jamaica,  June  12th,  Anthony,  &  his  wife  Elizabeth,  Adults,  the 
property  of  Amos  Denton 

Samuel,  son  of  Flarr}^  &  Diana  the  property  of  Mr  John 
Duryee,  Jamaica  South.  Mr  Christopher  Smiths  Peter,  God- 
Father 

New  Town,  July  17th  Juda,  daughter  of  Tom,  the  property  of 
Mr  Van  Rand,  at  BushWicke  and  his  wife 
Hannah,  the  property  of  Jacobus   Collier,  of  Bush  Wicke 

Jamaica  July  24th  Ringumbum.  An  Adult,  the  property  of  Mr 
Depeyster 

New  Town,  August  7  John  Francis,  the  Son  of  Francis  a  free- 
man, and  his  wife 
Lyda,  the  property  of  Saml.  Waldrom,  Esq. 


330  ORIGIN    AND    HISTORY 

New  Town,  Augst  28,  Jacob,  an  Adult,  the  property  of  Robert 
Moore 

Jamaica   October   i6th  James,  an   Adult,   the   property  of  Hen- 
drick  Hendrickson  oi  Springfield 

Jamaica  Nov.  6th  Caesar,  An  Adult,  the  property  of  Mr  Philip 
Piatt 

Anno  1792 

Flushing   March   4th    Josiah,   An   Adult    Patience,   daughter   of 
Sylvester  and  his  wife  Gosiah 

Jamaica   March    i8th   Richard,  An   Adult,   the   property   of  Al- 
bert  Hoghland.  of  Flushing 

Wm  Hammell  Rector 

Jamaica    /Vpril    loth    Susanna,    daughter    of    Isaac    &    Susanna. 

Free  people  formerly  the  property  of  Col.  Robinson 
Jamaica  April  22,  Pero,  an  Adult,  A  Freeman 

Jane,  his  wife,  the  property  of  John  Hinchsman 

Robert  &  Mary,  their  children 
Jamaica  May  20th  Diana,  the  daughter  of  John  &  Nelly  both 

the  property  of  Mr  Winecoop  of  New  Lots,  Sponsors.  Peter 

belongs  to  C.  Smith  Sarah  belongs  to  Nicho.  Jones  Nelly, 

the  mother 
Flushing,  Augst  26  Fanny,  the  daughter  of  Venus,  the  property 

of    Mrs    Aspinwall    Sponsors:    Hannabal,    belongs    to    Mrs 

Aspinwall  &  Margaret,  belongs  to  Col  Piatt. 
New  Town,  Sep.   2^   Maria,  the  daughter  of  Saml.  belongs  to 

George  Duvoise  & 

Sarah  belongs  to  Charles  Duvoise 

Richard,  the  Son  of  York  &  Lydia  free  people    N.  B.  John 

John  Costin,  a  freeman,  and  the  Mothers,  were  Sponsors 
New  Town  Octobr  14  Thomas.  An  Adult  the  property  of  John 

Van  Alse 
Jamaica    April    21st    Jane,    An    Adult    the    jiropcrty    of    Maria 

Snedeker 
Jamaica,  April  28,  Cornelius,  Son  of  Peter  and  Elizabeth,  both 

belonging  to  Christopher  Smith 
Jamaica,  June  9th,  Robert,  An  Adult,  a  Freeman 
New  Town,  June  23d  Diana,  An  Adult  belongs  to  the  Widow 

Rapeljie 

Jane,  the  daughter  of  George  belongs  to  the  W'idow  Leister 

and  Diana  his  wife  &c. 


OF    GRACE    CHURCH  331 

John  Venter,  son  of  Samuel  belonging-  to  Jacobus  Ryker  and 
Ruth  the  property  of  Saml.  Ryker 

Dorcas,  Daughter  of  France  belongs  to  Wm  Lawrence  Esq 
and  Diana,  the  property  of  Cornelius  Leister 

Newtown,  July  14th  Thomas,  a  Son  of  Francis  a  Freeman  and 
Lyda  the  property  of  Samuel  Waldron  N.  B.  Saml.  belongs 
to  the  Widow  Leister,  and  the  Mother  Sponsors 

New  Town  Octobr  6th  James,  Son  of  Andrew  &  his  Wife 
Sarah  the  one  belonging  to  John  &  the  other  to  Francis 
Titus 

Jamaica,  Novbr  3rd  Robert,  son  of  Robert,  a  Freeman  and  Lille, 
the  property  of  Mrs  Alsop.  The  Father  &  Elizabeth  belong- 
ing to  Mr  Denton,  sponsors 

Ann,  daughter  of  Richard,  belonging  to  Mr  Hoghland,  and 
Jane  belonging  to  Maria  Snedeker  The  Father  &  Grandmother 
Sponsors 

1794 

New  Town  March  2}^.  Thomas,  Son  of  Tobias,  the  property  of 
Wm  Londings,  and  Diana  belonging  to  the  Widow  Leister 

Wm  Hammell,  Rectr 

Jamaica  March  30.  Baptized,  Diana  daughter  of  Tero  a  Free- 
man and  Jane,  belonging  to  John  Rapelye,  of  N.  Town 

Jamaica  April  20th  Baptized  Dorcas,  a  Free  Woman  Adult 

Abraham,  Son  of  Jacob  &  Dorcas,  free  people  Sponsors, 
the  Father,  and  Hester,  belongg  to  the  Widow  Smith,  N.  T. 

Flushing  April  27.  Baptized  Diana  an  Adult  a  Free  Woman 

Flushing  May  3d  Baptized  Abraham,  an  Adult  A  Free  man 

Jamaica  August  3d  Baptized  Sarah  an  Adult  belonging  to  Hen- 
drick  Hendrickson,  and  Thomas  the  Son  of  James,  also  the 
property  of  the  above  Person  &  Sarah  his  wife 

Jamaica  Augst  31.  Baptized  Cato,  the  son  of  Harry,  belonging 
to  John  Thatford  and  Diana  his  wife,  belonging  to  Duryee 
of  Jamaica  South 

Jamaica  Sept.  21st  Baptized  Anthony,  Son  of  Jane  belongg  to 
David  Sprung  also,  Nathaniel,  son  of  Thomas  &  Elizabeth, 
both  the  property  of  Isaac  Amberman,  the  Parents  of  the 
latter  were  also  Sponsors  for  the  former 

also  Nancy  Reed,  daughter  of  Isaac  &  Susanna  Robertson,  Free 
people. 

Anno  1795 


332  ORIGIN    AND    HISTORY 

New   Town,  Jaiiy.    nth    Baptized    Lydia,   daughter  of   York   & 

Lydia,  Free  people  Thomas,  belong-ing-  to  John  Van  Alse 

and  the  Mother  were  Sponsors. 
New  Town    Feby    i.    Baptized,   EHzabeth    daughter  of   Samuel 

belongs  to  Elbert   Leyster  &   Sarah  belongs   to   Widow   De- 

voise,  Frank,  a  Free  man  and  the  Mother  Sponsors. 
New  Town,   Fel)y.  22,  Baptized  George  an  adult  belonging  to 

Peter  Culver  of  Bushwick,  &  Diana,  daughter  of  the  above 

and  Jane  belongs  to  Peter  Duryee. 
New  Town,  June  7th,  Baptized  James,  son  of  James,  a  Freeman 

&  Diana  belongs  to  Mr  Devoise,  at  Fresh  pond. 

JAMAICA,  BAPTIZED  15V  PXIJAH  D.  KATTOONE,  RECTOR  OF  GRACE  CHURCH 

Thomas,  born  24th  of  July  1796  and  baptized  25th  day  of  June 
1797.  the  Sponsors  being  Thomas  &  Elizabeth  the  Parents, 
the  property  of  Isaac  Ambleman 

Thomas,  son  of  Richard  Rhodes  freeman  &  Nancy,  Slave  of 
Christopher  Smith  born  30th  Octr  1798  Baptized  June  30th 
1799 

Thomas,  born  28th  Augt.  Bap.  Sept.  28th  1800,  child  of  Thomas 
&  Elizabeth,  servts  of  Eliphalet  ^Veeks  Esq  Jamaica.  The 
Parents  were  Sponsors 

Elizabeth,  child  of  Frank  and  Dinah  servants  of  Capt.  Motley 
born  Feby  3d  1801  &  bap  Do  22d  Do  Sponsors  Anthony  & 
Betty,  Servants  of  Amos  Denton 

Henry  Lawrence,  born  Feby  30,  1798  &  Saml.  Lawrence  Do 
Octr  2d  1802  children  of  Francis  &  Margaret  slaves  of 
William  Taylor  &  John  Rattoone.  l)apd  Aug.  2d  1801  Par- 
ents, the  Sponsors 

Mary  born  July  loth  1800,  bapd  9th  Novr  Do.  Parents  &  Spon- 
sors, Peter  &  Elizabeth,  Slaves  of  Mr  Christopher  Smith 

PRIVATE    RECORD    OF    GILBERT    H.    SAYRES    AFTER 
HIS   RECTORSHIP  CEASED. 

MARRIACKS 

Married  Dec.  29,  1835  Rowland  Seaman  and  Anne  Piatt 
Married  7th  April  1836  Dr  Richard  I.  Horsfield  and  Catherine 
L.  Nostrand 


OF    GRACE    CHURCH  333 

Married   Feby  21,   1837  Jeremiah   Valentine  and   Sarah  Vande- 

verg 
Married  April  13,  1837  James  Francis  and  Martha  Ann  Coles 
Married   May    15,    1838   Charles    Simison   and   Phebe   Cornwell 

of  Hempstead 
Married  August  18,   1838  Benjamin   Bates  and  Jane   Elizabeth 

Johnson   (cold) 
Married  Oct.  16,  1838  Jeremiah  Mayhew  and  Fancina  Simmons 

(col) 
Married  Jany  13,   1839  John  Miller  and  Hannah  Ann  Thomp- 
son (cold) 
Married  Sept.   12,   1840  Nicholas  W.   Francis  and  Phebe  Eliza 

Abrams 
Married  Oct.  4,   1840  James  Hubbard  Poole  and  Phebe  Maria 

Cornwell  of  Kings  County 
Married  Oct.  22,  1840  Nelson  Pryer  and  Sarah  Ann  Sands  (cold) 
Married   Dec.   25,    1841    Wm   Thompson   &   Elizabeth   Tredwell 

(cold) 
Married  July  2,  1842  Wm  Coles  and  Sarah  Anne  Leak 
Married  Sept.  29,  1842  Samuel  Smith  &  Jane  Rhodes  (colord) 
Married  August   16,   1843  Richard  Furman  &  Amelia  Leonard 

(cold) 
Married  Feby.  27,  1844  John  Verity  and  Phebe  Eliza  Coles 
Married  April  3,   1844  Samuel  Verity  and  Susan  Raynor 
Married  July  15,  1844  Samuel  Coes,  and  Elizabeth  Stine,  both  of 

Newtown 
Married  April  loth  1845,  at  Brooklyn,  Thomas  Harvey  Rodman 

and  Mary  Anne  Mann,  all  of  Brooklyn,  G.  Sayres,  witness 
Married  July  20,  1846,  Joseph  Furman  and  Sarah  Ferris  (cold) 
Married  Sept.  30,   1846  William  Welling  and   Elizabeth  Smith, 

both  of  Jamaica 
Married   March    15,    1847   David   William   Skidmore,   and   Mary 

Smith  both  of  this  parish 
Married  June  20,   1847  Samuel  White  and   Mary^  Sisco    (cold) 

of  this  place. 
Married  August  2,   1847  Joseph  Verity  and  Lucy  Burtis 
Married  October  20th  1847  Gilbert  Sayres  and  Anna  Leah  Sea- 
man, both  of  this  place 
Married  April  26,   1848  Frederick  Mooshake  and   Susan  Smith 


334  ORIGIN    AND    HISTORY 

Married    May    5.    1848    Peter    Amberman    &    Lydia    Johnson 

(colord) 
Married   May   2,    1849   ^^'"i    Henry   Verity   and   Susan   Elizabeth 

Frederick 
Married  May  23,  1849  George  Bedell  and  Charity  Amelia  Fred- 
erick 
Married  May  30,   1850  Charles  \V.  Abrams  and  Sarah   B.   Reni- 

sen 
Married    Nov.   20,    1850    Henry   Johnson    and    Hannah    Orange 

(both  cold) 
Married  May  25,  185 1  Thomas  H.  \'assar  and  Mary  Elizabeth 

Youngs 
Married  Sept.  8,  1852  Peter  Howard  and  Janette  Johnson  (cold) 
Oct.    23,    1852    Married    Thomas    Springsteen    and    Ida    Villers 

Johnson  (cold) 
Novr.  28,  1852  Married  James  L.  Smith  and  Maria  Louisa  Lester 
April  7,  1853  Married  Anthony  Jones  and  Elizabeth  Dusenbury 

(colord) 
June  23,  1853  Married,  by  Rev.  George  Sayres,  Joseph  Johnson, 

and  Mary  Anne  Boyd  (col.) 
1853  August  I,  Married  Samuel  Corn  well  and  Sarah  Hewlett 
Dec.   12,  Married  William  Henry  Cisco  and  Mary  Anne  Smith 

(cold) 

1855  Nov.  23,  Married  Augustus  Hook  and  Mary  Grawi,  both 
of  this  place. 

1856  Sept.  18,  Married  in  Grace  Church,  Dr.  Charles  Henry 
Barker  of  Frederickton  and  my  younges  daughter  Lydia 
Stewart  Sayres. 

1857  July  4  Married  John  R.  Jackson  and  Diana  Van  Nostrand 
(cold) 

1858  Oct.  17  Married  James  Jones,  and  Nancy  Edsal,  (cold) 
1858  Oct.  20th  Married,  William  Johnson  &  Matilda  Ann  Nos- 
trand (cold) 

Oct.    24,    Married,    Edward    Bayard,    junr    and    Mary    Am- 
berman  (cold) 
Dec.    20th    Married    George    Cole    and^  Matilda    Wyckoff 
(cold) 
1863  July  4,  Married  George  Lallman  and  Eve  Hollall 
August  9,   1863  Married  Robert  Many  and  Phebe  Cisco 
Sept.  13,  1863  Married  Henry  Roe  and  Emma  Maria  Byene 


OF    GRACE    CHURCH  335 

April  29,  1864  Married  Wm  Menger  and  Theresa  Pitnot 

1864  June  9,  Married  in  St.  Thomas  Church,  Ravenswood  L.  I. 
The  Rev.  Samuel  W.  Sayres,  Rector  of  the  Church  and 
Mary  E.  Bicker 

Nov.  5,  1864  Married  Samuel  Cooper  and  Julia  Ann  Hinckman 

cold) 
Oct.   8,    1865    Married    Livingston    R.    Mitchell   and   Ann    Eliza 

Roe  (cold) 
Dec.    10,    1865    Married    Edward    Menschen   and    Catherine    Tan- 

nerman 
Dec.  23,  1865  Married  Francis  Husher  and  Mary  Briney 
At  the  same  time  Married  John  Brown  and  Eliza  Husher 
1867,  March  31  Married  Adam  Negrand  and  Catherine  Smith 

1865  June  21  Married  Wm  J.  Sayres  &  Phebe  S.  Huntting,  G. 
S.  Witness  (Ent.  by  G.  S.) 

BAPTISED  BY  G.  H.  SAYRES 
Born  Dec.  13,  1787  Died  Apl.  27,  1867 — G.  S. 

Baptised  April  3,  1836  Joseph  Melony,  son  of  John  and  Anne 
Manwaring  born  Dec.  5,  1835 

Baptised  August  4th  1836  William  Allen,  son  of  David  William 
and  Elizabeth  Skidmore,  of  Ohio,  born  6th  April  1836 

Baptised  Dec.  4,  1836  Susan  Cisco  a  cold  young  woman 

Baptised  Dec.  28,  1836  Mary,  born  15  Nov.  1828  and  Wm  Henry, 
born  26  Dec  1834  children  of  John  and  Phebe  Sisco  (cold) 

Baptised  August  10,  1837  Sarah  Grigsby  daughter  of  James  and 
Hendry,  born  August  4,  1836 

Baptised  June  9th  1838  John  son  of  David  William  and  Eliza- 
beth Skidmore  of  Ohio,  born  26th  March  1838 

Baptised  June  23,  1838  Samuel  Harris  son  of  Washington  H. 
and  Mary  Rodman  born   nth   March    1838 

Baptised  August  7,  1838  William  Jeffrey  son  of  James  and 
Elizabeth  Lodge  born  Feby.  20,  1838 

Baptised  March  31,  1840  Emeline  daughter  of  John  and  Eliza- 
beth Sprouls  born  14  March  1840 

Baptised  Sept.  30  1840  Adrian  Hoffman  son  of  Dr  George  H. 
and  Mary  Ann  Kissam  born  15  April  1840 

Baptised  Oct.  12,  1840  Elizabeth  Harvey  daughter  of  Wash- 
ington H.  and  Mary  Rodman  born   i6th  June  1840 


336  ORIGIN    AND    HISTORY 

Baptised  Nov  —  1840  My  Sister  Abigail  Sayres,  born  Oct.   i, 

1797 
Baptised  Sept.   12,  1842  Margaret  daughter  of  James  and  Mar- 
garet Beard,  born  5th  June  1841 
Baptised  Sept  28,  1842  Frederick,  son  of  Henry  and  Anne  Pen- 
nington, born  4th  April  1841 
Baptised  April   10,  1845  Francis  Beresford,  son  of  Washington 

H.  and  Mary  Rodman  born   10  Novr  1844 
Baptised  Martha,  daughter  of  Gilbert  and  Anna 

Leah  Sayres  born  May  8,  1849 
Baptised  Feb.  14,  1852  Rebecca  Ann,  child  of  Joseph  and  Sarah 

Furman   (colord) 
Baptised   Jany.    i,    1853   James   Alexander,    son   of   Thomas   S. 

and  Martha  L.  Jackson,  born  April  15  1853  (col) 
Baptised   Jany    i,    1852   William    Seaman,   son    of   Gilbert    and 

Anna    Leah    Sayres    born    i6th    October    185 1 
Baptised  Jany.   i,   1854  Mary  Regina,  daughter  of  Gilbert  and 

Anna  Leah  Sayres  born  2  Nov.  1853 
Baptised  Jany  18.  1855  Clarissa  Elizabeth,  daughter  of  Francis 

and  Clara  Beman  (cold)  Born  18  Dec  52 
Baptised  July  22,  1855  Isaac,  son  of  Joseph  and  Sarah  Elizabeth 

Anthony,  about  3  years  old  (cold) 
Baptised  March  30,  1857  John  son  of  George  and  Leene  Schible 

born  21   (Feby  last)   1857 
Baptised  June  14,  1857  Louis  son  of  John  and  Mina  Knoechel, 

born  3  June  inst. 
Baptised  Sept.  2,   1857  Gilbert  Sayres,  son  of  Charles  H.  and 

Lydia  S.   Barker,  born   Angus  27   (last  past)    1857 
Baptised  i,  Nov.  —  1857  John  Frederick,  son  of  John  Freder- 
ick and  Helen  Hamburger,  Born  6th  Nov.  Instant 
Baptised  August  8,  1858  John  Jacob  son  of  John  and  Caroline 

Miillcr  born  July  30th  last  past 
Baptised    Sept.   21,    1858   Herbert   Alonzo,    son   of    Daniel    and 

Mary  Cobleigh  born  Oct.  27,  1855 
Baptised Anne  Eliza  daughter  of  Gilbert  and  Anno 

L.  Sayres  born  Nov.  17,  1858  Baptised  Jany.  25,  1859. 
Baptised  Feb.  23,  1859  George  son  of  George  and  Rosina  Pifer 

born  Janry  8,  1859 
Baptised Eliza  Adaline  daughter  of  Dr.  Charles  H. 


OF    GRACE    CHURCH  337 

and  Lydia  S.  Barker  born  21  May  1859.   Baptised  August 

5,  1859  8 

Baptised  (Cold)  George  Washington  son  of  John  and  Charlotte 

Rantus  March  23,  i860 
Baptised  August  30,  i860  George  Henry  son  of  Henry  H.  and 

Catherine   Schoonmaker,  born   i6  April    1859 
Baptised  Oct.  28,  i860  Gilbert  Barker  son  of  Gilbert  and  Anne 

Leah    Sayres   born    Sept.   9,    i860 
i860  Nov.  25,  Baptised  Johanna  daughter  of  John  and  Caroline 

Miiller,  born  Nov.   loth 
Nov.  25,  i860  Baptised  Amelia,  daughter  of  Henry  and  Eliza- 
beth Miller  born  27  August  i860 
Jany  28,  1861    Baptised  Isabella,  daughter  of  Jacob  and  Mary 

Elizabeth  Durell  (Col)  born  Dec  i860 
Baptised   August   24,    1862    Caroline    daughter   of   Charles   and 

Frederick  Behr  born  25  July  last  1862 
Baptised  March  15  1863  Eleonora,  daughter  of  John  and  Caroline 

Moehler  born  26  Feb.  last  past  1863. 
At  the  same  time  Henry  son  of  Henry  and  Sophia  Straub  born 

27,  March  1862 
Baptised    June    17th     1863    Abigail    Elizabeth    daughter    of    Dr 

Charles  H.  and   Lydia  S.  Barker  born   i8th  Nov.   1862 
Baptised  August  8,  1863  Wm  Son  of  Wm  and  Louisa  Johnson 

(cold)  born  April  2d  last  past 
Baptised  August  23,   1863   Samuel  son  of  John  and   Charlotte 

Rantus   (cold)  born  5  April  last 
Baptised  August  23,  1863  John  Frederick  son  of  Christian  and 

Wilhelmina  Witzel,  born  26  May  1863 
Baptised  August  30,  1863,  Elizabeth,  daughter  of  Anna  Leah  and 

Gilbert  Sayres,  born  July  7,  1863 
Baptised  Oct  4,  1863  Thomas  Hutchinson,  born  Feb  3,  1857 
Same  time  Charles  Henry  born  Oct.   15,  i860 
Same   time   Edward   born   25,   July    1863    Children   of   Thomas 

H.  and  Mary  Elizabeth  Vassar 
Same  time  Elmira  Amelia  born  11  Oct.  1862  daughter  of  John 

Henry  and  Ellen  Sophia  Young 
Baptised    Oct.   25,    1863   Anne   Elizabeth    daughter   of  Thomas 

and  Anne  Hughes,  born  25  June  1863 
Baptised  August  7,    1864  Alexander  son   of   Peter   and   Sylvia 

Thompson   (col.)   born   Angus  7,   1863 


338 


ORIGIN    AND    HISTORY 


Baptised  August  14th  1864  Mary  Ann  Eliza,  daughter  of  Chris- 
tian and  Catherine  Frederick  (german)  born  June  —  1864 

Baptised  Sept.  28,  1864  Tarquinia  Caro  daughter  of  —  and 

Ellen  Warren,  born  July   loth  1862 

Baptised  June  11,  1865  Mark  Edward,  son  of  George  and  Sarah 
Moses 

Baptised  May  6,  1866  Lydia  daughter  of  Gilbert  and  Anna  L 
Say  res  born  April  9th   1866 

Baptised  August  7,  1866  Arabella  Garold  daughter  of  Peter  and 
Sylvia  Thompson. 


BAPTISMS  BY  THE  REVD  MR  BLOOMER,  A.  D.  1780-90 


Date 


Name 


1780,   June 

l5th 

Be  Loyal 

Livingston 

1781,  Mch 

12th 

Thomas   Duncan 

<< 

29 

Margaret   Wiliett 

April 

1st 

Elizabeth   Hustead 

<( 

13th 

Martha  Wiggins 

May 

4th 

Isaac       ] 

(( 

(< 

Johci 

(< 

" 

Esther 

(( 

" 

Joseph 

"Anderson 

May 

7th 

Clara 

« 

<< 

AUetta 

« 

" 

Sarah      , 

(1 

4th 

Jeremiah  Anderson 

« 

6th 

Mary  Benton 

C( 

20th 

Harriet   Pomerby 

July 

22 

Mary    Dobbs 

August 

loth 

Ann   Clout 

September  2nd 

Ann   Payne    .  . 

" 

9th 

James    Jervis 

.< 

13th 

Joh«  Jones 
Nicholas  Jones 

" 

16th 

Elizabeth    Dunbar 

" 

21st 

Douwe  Ditmus 

October 

5th 

Catherine    Betts 

(1 

25th 

Ann  Prichard 

December 

6th 

Thomas  Wiikins 

" 

26th 

Aletta    Vaughn 

1782 

January 

6th 

Addison   Clarke 

" 

8th 

Thomas   Home 

" 

9th 

Mary    Smith 

II 

20th 

Sarah    Smith 

" 

22 

Joseph    Ely 

February 

6th 

Sarah  Mo 

ore 

Parents 
Philip    Livingston 
Daniel  &  Arabella  Ludlow 
John  &  Ann  Waters 
Jabez  &  Mary  Hustead 
Stephen  Wiggins 


Jonathan    &    Mary    Andersoji 


William  &  Elizabeth  Anderson 
Peter  &  Ann  Benton 
Josiah   &  Ann   Pomerby 
Jarvis  &  Elizabeth  Dobbs 
Thos  &  Catherine  Clout 
Gerard   &   Sarah   Beekman 

Thomas  &  Joanna  Ganong 
Nicholas  Jones 

John  &  Alletta  Dunbar 
Douwe    &   Catherine   Ditmus 
Thos    &    Susanna   Welling 
Anthony   &   Phebe  Terril 
Isaac   &   Isabella   Wiikins 
Wm   &   Aletta  Vaughn 

Heman   &   Hannah  Clarke 
Thomas   &   Margaret  Smith 

do 

do 
Joseph    &    Sarah    Ely 
Nathaniel   &  Johnana   Moore 


OF    GRACE    CHURCH 


339 


1783 


March  21st   Elizabeth    Channmg 

"  31       Phebe  Burger 
April  7th  James    Herny 

"  9        Eugunrea   Haviland 
May  5th  George   Boning 

June  2nd  Abram   Moore  & 
"  "     Nathaniel    Moore 

August  l7th   John   Dunbar 

"  18th   Mary    Houlroyd 
September  l5th  Stephen   Higgins 
"  "       Hannah  &  Mary  & 

October  22d  Samuel  

"  23d  Catherine    Whitehead 

December  24th  James  Henry 


January      I9th  Nathaniel   Fish 

23d  Ann 
February      2nd  Gilbert  Dawson 
May  isthMargaret    & 

Sarah    Willet 
June  28th  Marinus   Willet 

July  25th  Agnes    Betts 

"  27th   Peter    Fairchild 

Balthus 
September   7th  Frances 

John   Clark 
"  "       Ann   Dashwood 

November    9th    Elizabeth 


1784 


1785 


January        Sth  Lucretia  Wiggins     f 
"  "      Richard  Wiggins     i 

"  "       Mary   Wiggins 

18        William 
March         27th  Ann   Carpenter 
September   Sth  Ann 

Sth  Samuel  Gregson 


January 


May 
June 


lOth  Thomas  Colgan 
llth  Catherine 
14th   Befljamin 
22d  Thomas  Alsop 
Sth  Charles 
10th  James  Hallet 
—  John  Begaw 
Mary  Strictland 


July 

October 
Novr 

November  20th 
27 


1786 


3d   Richard   Lawrence 

2d  Augustus   

13th   Richard 
Eloisa 
Cornelius  Rapelai 


January      iSth  Aletta 


"      John  Polhemus 


Revd.  Thomas  &  Judah  Moore 
John  &  Miniam  Burger 
Philip  &  Susanna  Herny 
David  &  Mary  Haviland 
James  &  Elizabeth 
Abram  &  Mary  Berrian 
do 

John  &  Mary  Houlroyd 
Simon  &  Margaret  Higgins 

Isaac   &   Mary   Petit 

Daniel  &  Catherine  Whitehead 

John  &  Sophia  McDonald 

William  &  Jane  Moore 
Elihu    &   Ann   Hume 
Henry  &   Elizabeth  Dawson 

James  &  Sarah  Morell 
William   &   Aletta  Vaughn 
John   &   Ann   Waters 
Thomas  &  Elizabeth       do 
Stephen  &  Esther  Delancy 
Danl.   &  Arabella  Ludlow 
Heman  &  Hannah  Clark 
Francis   &   Elizabeth  Lewis 
Thomas   &    Elizb.    Cornell 

Adults 

Richard  &  Ann  Wiggins 
William  &  Jane  Rearden 
John   Carpenter 
John    &    Mary   Hinksman 
Samuel  &  Mary  Turner 

Daniel  &  Catherine  Whitehead 
Daniel  &  Mary  Kissam 
Jacob  &  Elizabeth  Moore 
Richard   &   Abigail   Alsop 
John   &  Margaret  Houlroyd 
Stephen  &  Rebecca  Hallet 
Isaac   &  Susanna       do 
(Adult)    Wife  of  Jonathan 

Strictland 
Jonathan    &    Mary    Strictland 
Son  of  John  &  Mary       do 
Charles    Welling 
Francis  &  Eliz.  Lewis 
David  &  Mary  Purdy 

John  &  Ann  Waters 
John   &  Sarah   Polhemus 


340 


ORIGIN    AND    HISTORY 


May 


20th 


1787 


I7i 


September    1st 


Hannah    Waynman 

Benjamin 

Ann 

Wm  David 


Adult 

Joseph    &    Lydia   Burrows 
William    &   Hannah    Waynman 
David  &   Patience  Titus 


January 

Jufle 
July 

August 
October 

Novr 

January 


Feby 


March 
April 
May 
June 


1789 


July 
Aug 

Nov 

March 


1st 

I7th 
24th 
I5th 

19th 
1st 

28th 
3d 

12th 

•1st 

4th 
6th 
25 


Edwin   Bardin  David  &  Catherine  Whitehead 

Elizabeth   John  &  Margaret  Holroyd 

Susannah  Isaac   &   Sus   Begaw 

John   &   William   &  Biakeney  &  Catherine  Bon- 
Thomas  &  Christopher  (chias 

Gabriel   Ludlow  Francis    &    Elizabeth    Lewis 

John    Shoals  Jacob   &   Elizabeth   Moon 

Susannah   Betts  Adult 

Ann  Smith  Adult 

Daniel  Thorn  Hutchins  &  Ann  Smith 


27 

1st 

4th 

7  th 

14th 

17th 

2d 

9th 

13th 

27th 

25th 

it 

22 


29th 


27th 
3lst 
30th 


John,    George    & 

Elizabeth 
Mary   Baker 
George    Baker 
Jonathan     Underbill 
Sarah,    Hannah, 

William  &  Mary  & 

Ann 
Maria  Ann 

Sarah   Hyatt 
Sarah,  Thomas  &  Anna 
Jane    Templeton 
Jane   Creed 
Jane    Wiggins 
Cornelius 
John  Vanpelt 
William  Pettit 
Helecha  Jones 
Mary    Thatford 
Elizabeth  Baker 
Sarah 

Joseph    Roe 
Fanny 

John   &  Sarah 
Francis  Field 
Deborah   Smith   Field 
Sarah    Field 
Hannah   Field 
Waters  Smith  Field 
Richard    Field 
Stephen    Field 
John 
Sarah 
Elizabeth 


George   Baker 


do 


do 

Adult 
Adult 
Jonathan   &  Hannah  Underbill 


Samuel   &    Ann   Brownjohn 
Adult 

Cornelius  &  Sarah  Hyatt 
Oliver  &  Catherine  Templeton 
Hewlett    &    Charlotte    Creed 
Richard  &  Ann  Wiggins 
David  &   Mary   Purdy 
Thomas  &  Eliz.   Kelly 
Isaac    &    Mary   Pettit 
Jonathan   &   Rebecca  Jones 
••John  &  Charity  Thatford 
*George   &   Hannah   Baker 
"""Isaac  and  Rhoda  Hewlett 
An  Adult 

James   &   Sarah    Morrell 
John   &  Elizabeth  Voorhoes 


Adults 


23d  Richard  Morton 


Samuel  Eldert 

Wm   &   Hannah   Waynman 

John   &   Sarah  Troup 

Adult 


"*These   were  baptised  by   Rev.  Thomas  Moore. 


OF    GRACE    CHURCH 


341 


1790 


1791 


Sept 

13  th 

Thomas 

November  I9th 

Charlotte 

May 

2d 

William   James 

(< 

16th 

John 

<< 

23d 

Jane 

<( 

30th 

Levinah 

" 

(( 

Nelly 

August 

1st 

William 

" 

25th 

James  De  Puyster 

October 

18th 

Wm    Waters 

" 

" 

Hannah   Waters 

<( 

" 

Ann  Waters 

(1 

(( 

Margaret  Waters 

Novembei 

r    8th 

Edward  Greenoak 

K 

<( 

Sarah    Greenoak 
Sarah  Lawrence 

H 

'' 

Elizabeth  Lawrence 
Elizabeth  Greenoak 
Martha    Hare 
Elizabeth   Daltoci 

(( 

(< 

Mary    Hallet 

(( 

(( 

Samuel   Hare 

<< 

(1 

Nathaniel  Greenoak 

(< 

(C 

Benjamin  Hallet 

<( 

<( 

Maria 

(( 

<( 

David  Titus 

l< 

" 

Nathaniel  Greenoak 

(( 
<( 

<f 

Deborah    Greenoak 
Maria 

<< 

(1 

(1 

Rebecca    Moore 
Lydia    Moore 

<( 

(( 

Nathaniel   Moore 

<( 

" 

Richard 

<< 

22d 

Isaac 

" 

28th 

Anna 

Febry 

16th 

Sarah 

<( 

27th 

Samuel 

March 

9th 

John 

" 

13th 

Be^ijamin    Daniel 

i< 

23d 

William 

" 

27th 

Nathaniel    Renney 

May 

9th 

Daniel    Thorn 
Bathsheba    Thorn 

(< 

" 

Mary  Thorn 

(( 

22dEIizabeth   Vanpelt 

June 

20th 

Catherine 

July 

lOth 

Elena  Allen 

[\ 

.< 

Clarissa  &  James 
Isaac 

" 

16th 

Mary 

August 

7th 

Salley    Fish 

a 

14th 

Thomas   Willet 

Samuel  &  Ann  Brownjohn 
John  &  Sarah  Hicks 

Wm  &  Hannah  Wayinman 
Wm  &  Mary  Aspinwall 
Hulet   &   Charlotte  Creed 
David  &  Mary  Purdy 
Isaac  &  Susannah  Begaw 
William    &    Martha    Smith 
Jacob  &  Mary  Ogden 


Adults 


Joseph   &  Mary  Hallet 
Edward   &   Sarah   Greenoak 
Melancthon  &  Sarah  Lawrence 


Stephen  &  Rebecca  Hallet 


Edward   &   Sarah    Lawrence 
Isaac  &  Rhoda  Hewlett 
John   &  Charity   Thatford 

Isaac  &  Mary  Pettit 
Samuel   &    Elizabeth   Sackett 
John  &  Sarah  Troup 
Saml.    &    Elizabeth    Welling 
John  &  Mary  Hinchman 
Adult 

Adults 

Thomas    &    Elizabeth    Kelley 

Morris  &  Catherine  Hazzard 

Adult 

James  &  Elena  Allen 

Richard  Peck 

Daniel  &  Mary  Kissam 

John  &  Afln  Waters 

Daniel  &  Catherine  Whitehead 


342 


ORIGIN    AND    HISTORY 


BAPTISMS  BY  THE  REVD  MR.  HAMMEL,  A.  D.  1791 


Date 

Name 

A.    D.    1791 

August 

15th 

Mrs.  Nancy  Buckb 
Abigail 
Hannah 
Benjamin 

18th 

I'atlfnce     Susanni 

September 

ZJth 

Mary 

Kendel 

Alexander 

October 

2nd 

Mrs  Anna   Roe 

Lawrence    Roe 

Betsey    Roe 

Ann     Cornell 

Marth 

Richard 

William 

Samuel 

Abraham 

Isaac 

November 

13th 

Catherine 
Sarah 

" 

20th 

Sarah 

November 

29th 

Margaret 

December 

26th 

John 

1792 

January 

20tb 

Sarah    Tompkins 
Hannah    Buckbee 
Edward 
John 

22n(l 

John 

.. 

29th 

Anna 

Roloef    Duryoe 

Feby. 

15th 

Eliza 

March 

11th 

Elizabeth     Ann 

22(1 

Cecilia    Gold 

April 

4th 

Elizabeth 

" 

6th 

Maria 

" 

24th 

(Jcorpe 

May 

28 

Thomas 

Anna 

Samuel    Hallett 

Joseph 

David 

June 

4th 

I.ydia 

Mary   Berrian 

" 

24 

James  Henry 

August 

18th 

Elizabeth 

September 

30th 

Obadiah    Paul 

John    &    Sarah    Hicks 
Jacob    &    Susannah    Vanpelt 
John   &    Deborah    Dunn 

Adults 


Wm     &    Martha    Lowerre 


Wm   &   Catherine   Weaver 

BenJ  &  Nancy  Buckbee 
Wm  &  Martha  Puntlne 
James   &    Elizabeth    Moore 

Adults 

Josephine   &   Sarah 

Thompkins 
John  Hutchins  &  Ann  Smith 
Richard    &    Anna    Wiggins 

John  &  Catherine  Hlncksmnn 
Jonathan  &  Hannah   Underbill 
Francis  &  Elizabeth    Lewis 
Hulett    &    Charlotte    Creed 
Samuel    &    Catalina    Eldrel 
Daniel   &   Ellen    Rapelyea 
David   &   Jemima    Moore 


Joseph   &   Mary   Hallett 
Stephen  &   Rebecca   Hallett 
John    &    Elizabeth    Voorhase 
Isaac    &    Susanna    Bergen 
Obt'diah    &    Sarah    I>eech 


Sponsors 


David  Titus  &  Sus.   Kvers 
I.  V.  Pelt  &  Mary  V.  Pelt 


OF    GRACE    CHURCH 


343 


BAPTISMS  BY  THE  REVD.  WILLIAM  HAMMELL 


Date 
A.    0.    1792 

October  2l8t 

Novr  25th 

Deer  23 

Deer  15th 

1793 

March  17th 

April  28th 

May  12th 


2nd 

9th 

14th 

2l8t 

28th 


June 
July 


31th 

September    1st 

15th 

29th 

Octr  23d 


Novr 
Deer 


19 

1st 


1794 
February 


15th 
29th 

2nd 

5th 

9 

26th 


Name 

Wm.    Henry 
David 
Jane 
Jenny 
Wm    Betts 

Nathaniel  Lewis 

Sarah 

Wm    Simmonds 

Joannah    Smith 

Martha 

Ann    Lewis 

Martha    Prlen 

Thomas 

Robert 

William   Lawrence 

David 

Mary     Lawrence 

Eldred 

Judith    Roosevelt 

Thomas 

Abby    Morrell 

Elizabeth  Burling 

John    Morrell 

Sarah   Morrell 

Catherine 

Clarissa    Rodman 

Horatio    Gates 

Mary    Fowler 

Jane    Fowler 

Margaret    Roe 

Thomas   Roe 

Nathaniel   Roe 

Gilbert    Roe 

Benj.     Roe 

Silas 

Eliza 

Anna 

Elizabeth 

John 

Mary   Ann 

Nathaniel 
Thomas 
EUenor 
Elizabeth 


Parents 

Wm    &    Catherine    Hammel 
David    &   Mary   Purdy 
Joseph   &  Mary   Yandle 
Isaac  &   Mary   Petitt 
Charles   &   Sarah   McDavid 

Nathaniel  &  Elizabeth  Betts 
Samuel  &  Elizabeth  Welling 
An    Adult 

Monson   &   Lueretia   Hoyt 
Wm    &   Sarah    McKrell 
Chas.    &    Sarah    McDavid 
John    &    Charity    Thatford 
Thos.    &    Susanna    Haight 
John    &    Sarah    Troup 
An    Adult 
Wm   Lawrence 
Thos.    &    Abigail    Billup 
Saml.    &    Catalina    Eldred 
Timothy    &    Sarah    Roach 
Wm    &    Eve    Hannahs 
Adults 

Adults 

Morris  &  Catherine  Hazzard 
Francis   &    Elizabeth    Lewis 

Adults 

Joseph    &    Ann    Roe 


Garret  &  Cornelia  Nostrand 

Nathaniel   &   Elizabeth   Betts 

William   &    Elizabeth    Betts 
John    &    Sarah    Hicks 
John    &    Mary    Hincksman 
Henry  &  Wlnnlfred  Van  Allen 


Residence 

Jamaica 

Newtown 

Jamaica 


Flushing 
Jamaica 
Newtown 
Jamaica 

Newtown 
Jamaica 
Newtown 
Flushing 
New     Town 

Jamaica 

Newtown 

Flushing 


Newtown 
Flushing 


Jamaica 

Newtown 
Flushing 
Jamaica 
Newtovni 


IX 
THE  BOOK  OF  BURIALS 


OF    GRACE    CHURCH  347 


TOMBSTONES  AND  BURIALS  IN  GRACE  CHURCH 

YARD. 

Jamaica,  L.  I.  Aug.  19,  1885. 
To  the  Rector,  Church  Wardens  &  Vestrymen  of  Grace  Church. 
Gentlemen. 

This  little  book  contains  a  list  of  interments  &c.  in  your 
church  yard  from  1773  to  1820;  &  funeral  bells  for  some  buried 
elsewhere  who  were  not  Episcopalians.  It  will  be  of  great 
use  to  the  genealogist,  as  many  persons  were  buried  &  no 
tombstones  put  up.  Some  stones  were  put  under  the  church 
when  the  edifice  of  1822  was  extended  over  the  graves.  They 
also  are  lost  to  us. 

This  book  will  give  a  record  of  many  deaths  not  elsewhere 
to  be  found,  this  book  is,  therefore,  unique.  As  such  I  present 
it  to  you  &  hope  it  may  be  carefully  kept  for  future  &  present 
reference. 

I  also  have  added  a  copy  of  the  insciptions  on  the  tombstones 
in  the  older  portions  of  the  yard,  made  in  1846.  They  can  be 
read  here  without  a  visit  to  the  yard.     Yours  very  Respectfully, 

HENRY  ONDERDONK  JR. 

INTERMENTS  IN  GRACE  CHURCH  YARD 

FROM  1773  TO  1820, 
AS  COPIED  BY  HENRY  ONDERDONK,  JR., 

from  the  account  book  of  Aaron  VanNostrand,  the  sexton.  Also 
his  charges  for  tending  the  pall  and  ringing  funeral  bells  for  those 
buried  elsewhere. 

1773 

Feb.  3.  Robart  Hinchman  for  sister  Mary,  a  funeral  bell  3/,  use 

of  pall  4/ 
Ap   21  Mr.   Roberson   of  Whitestone   digging  grave   for  your 

child  3/ 
Aug  II.  Mrs.  Mary  Smith,  bell  for  your  mother. 


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350  ORIGIN    AND    HISTORY 

Sept  3  Mr.  Sackett,  putting  up  tombstone  i/ 

Sept  19  O.  B.  Mills  for  yr  son,  &  bell  of  Dutch  church  3/ 

Oct  3  Mr.  John  Ennes,  grave  for  yr  wife  6/ 

Oct  20  John  Willett,  for  pall 

1774 

Mar  21   Mrs.  Mills  funeral  bell  for  Rev.  Mr.  Mills  5/ 

Ap  27  Mrs.  Lashly  for  Mr.  Lashlie  (Leslie) 

May  20  Jas  TafTers,  grave  for  Jas  Taflfers. 

Jul  24  Mrs.  Rapelye,  bell  for  Mr.  John  Rapelye  5/  &  of  D.  ch.  5/ 

Sep  2  Mrs.  Betts  for  Mrs.  Fish's  child,  bell. 

Sep  26  Mr.  Moerl  (Morrell)  for  pall  4/ 

Nov  15  Rich.  Betts  for  2  graves 

1775 

5  or  10  Garret  Latten's  executors,  bell  &  pall 
Feb  24  John  I.  Troup  taking  up  (floor  of  the)  church  5/ 
Mar  21  Jacob  Duryea,  bell  for  yr  father 
Ap  28  Ob.  Mills,  for  Mrs.  Hicks. 

1775 

June  4  John  Smith  for  yr  mother 
Aug  26  Mrs  Ditmas,  yr  husband's  grave,  pall  &  bell 
Sept  15  John  Hitton  yr  child 
Oct  13  John  Ennes  yr  father's  grave 
Nov  6  Nich.  Jones  yr  child 
Nov  20  Chas  Crommeline,  pall 
Dec  20  John  Polhemus,  yr  mother 
Dec  30  David  Lamberson,  yr  wife 
1776 

Feb  8     Mrs.  Combs  for  Gilbert  Combs 
Feb  28  Samuel  Skidmore,  yr  child 
Ap  21   Mr.  (christr.)  Smith  for  Mrs.  Colgan  taking  up  &  putting 

down  church  floor  6/ 
Aug  6  David  Lamberson,  yr  child 
Aug  6  Mrs.  Nostrand,  pall 
Sep  3     Wm.  Thadford  for  Mr.  Thadford 
Sep  4  Jos  Dunbar,  yr  child 
Sep  5,  6,  7  Three  soldier's  graves  18/ 
Sep   13  Mr.  Suydam,  yr  child 
Sep  17  Benj.  Wiggin's  Estate,  grave 
Sep  22  David  Colden,  pall, 
Sep  26  Daniel  Whitehead,  yr  child 


OF    GRACE    CHURCH  351 

Sep  26  Jos  Burting,  yr  child 
Sep  26  Winant  Van  Zandt,  yr  child 
Sep  27  Joshua  Carpenter,  yr  wife 
Sep  27  Jacob  Carpenter,  yr  father 

Sep  29  Chas  McEvers  for  Mrs  Brockels,  inviting  &  tending  8/ 
Oct  I     Jos  Horsfield,  yr  child,  "half  a  funeral  bell"  2/6 
Oct  I     Daniel  Whitehead,  yr  child 
Oct  2     Nath'l  Higby,  yr  child 
1776 

Oct  6     Samuel  Mills,  yr  wife 
Oct  8     Samul  Skidmore,  yr  child 
Oct  12  Nath'l  Denton,  yr  father 
Oct  17  Jos  Oldfield,  yr  child 
Oct  18  John  Bergen,  yr  child 
Oct  20  Jos  Oldfield,  yr  child 
Oct  28  Jos  Oldfield,  yr  child 
Oct  29  Abm.  Ditmas,  pall 
Nov  I     John  Smith  for  Robt.  Howel 
Nov  2     Abm.  Colyer,  yr  child 
Nov  4     Mrs.  Betts,  bell  for  June  Polhemus 
Nov  6     Jacob  Carpenter,  yr  wife 
Nov  10  Hope  Mills  Jr.,  yr  child 
Nov  12  Jacob  Dean,  yr  child 
Nov  20  Jacob  Tyler,  yr  child 
Nov  18  Chas  McEvers,  for  Mrs.  Johnson 
Dec  I     Mr.  Smith,  for  Mrs  Hammersly's  child 
Dec  8     Mrs.  Betts  yr  husband  Thos  Betts. 
Dec  30  Rulef  Durye,  yr  child 
1777 

Feb  15  John  Brimmer,  for  Gone  Nesbert 
Mar  7  Thos  Welling,  for  Mrs  Tanner 
Ap  4     Jos  Dunbar,  yr  wife 
Ap  7     John  Mesnerg  (Messenger)  yr  brother 
Ap  17  John  Mesnerg,  "for  Isaac  Roods 
Ap  20  Hope  Mills,  for  Peter  Colyer 
Ap  20  Amos  Denton,  bell  for  yr  brother 
May  21  Jas  Huston,  yr  child 
May  21  Nath'l  Mills  for  yr  brother  Obadiah 
Aug  5     Nath'l  Mills  for  yr  sister 
Aug  14  Josh  Van  Brunt,  yr  child 


352  ORIGIN    AND    HISTORY 

Aug  23  Major  James,  for  Thos  Day  from  Yorkshire  Eng. 

Aug  25  Thos  Hinchman,  yr  child 

Sept  6  John  Polhemus,  yr  child 

Oct  3     Geo  Dunbar,  yr  child 

Oct  9     Alexr.  Walles  (Wallace)  yr  child 

Oct  13  Alexr.  Walles  (Wallace),  yr  child 

Oct  29  Tunes  Polhemus.  yr  child 

Nov  19  Saml  Moore,  for  Molly  Williamson 

Nov  24  Rich.  Betts,  yr  wife 

Dec  13  Mrs.  Higby,  yr  husband 

Dec  23  John  Wiggins  Jr.  yr  child 

1778    ^ 

Jan  4     Isaac  Peltit,  yr  child 

Jan   10  Jas  Huston,  yr  child 

Jan  28  Benj.  Everet,  a  child  for  a  woman  at  John  Skidmore's 

Feb  I     Mr.  Patte(r)  son,  "to  digging  a  grave"  6/ 

Feb  12  Sam'l  Cornell,  pall 

Mar  17  Phillip  Van  Cortland,  yr  child 

Mar  20  John  Snedeker,  grave  for  Evert  Van  Wicklen's  w'fe 

Mar  21  Benj.  Creed,  bell  for  yr  father 

Mar  28  Nehemiah  Coe,  yr  wife 

Ap  15  Mrs.  "Tansly",  yr  child 

May  2     Mrs.  Smith,  yr  son 

Ju  17  John  Cockel,  bell 

July  18  Jas  Depeyster,  for  Jos  Read,  inviting  &  grog  10/,  four 
carriers  at  i  Pound  12. 

July  19  Mrrs.  Weatherhead,  grave,  grog  for  carriers  2/,  4  car- 
riers, 8/  each 

July  24  Mr.  Drumman   (Drummond),  his  bell. 

July  29  Anne  Hincksman,  grave  for  Betty  &  funeral  bell 

Aug  7     Anne  Hincksman,  grave  for  Obadiah  &  do. 

Aug  7     Col.  James,  pall  for  yr  wench. 

Aug  12  Mrs.  Fatten,  yr  husband  (Garret) 

Aug  14  Mrs.  Mills,  yr  grandchild 

Aug  18  Mr.  Patson,  yr  child 

Aug  30  Isaac  Ogden,  yr  child 

Sept  3     Col.  Lawrence,  yr  child 

Sep  7     Jas  "Wararop",  pall 

Sop  16  Nath'l  Roods,  child  for  woman  at  John  Skidmore's 

Sep  25  Mrs.  Skidmore,  bell  for  yr  husband 


OF    GRACE    CHURCH  353 

Sep  26  Hoal  (Howel)  Smith,  yr  child 
Oct  10  Jos  Field,  yr  wife 

"      "    Jacob  Tyler,  yr  child 

"    13  Parish,  Mr.  "Huchens" 

"    25  John  Smith  yr  child 

"    29  Nehemiah  Coe,  yr  child 

"    31   Howel  Smith,  yr  child 
Nov.  3     Robt.  Morrell,  Flushing,  by  Jas  Eager,  pall 

"      18  Mr.  Losson,  bell  for  a  man 

"      20  Capt.  of  6ist.  Light  Infantry,  a  soldier  of  63d. 

"      21  Mr.  Lot,  a  man 

"      32  Robt.  Hinchman,  yr  brother  Benjm. 
Dec  4     Capt.  Montgomery,  for  Capt.  Graham  37th.  Reg.  Gren- 
adier. 
Dec.  5     Cors.  Bennet,  grave  for  Mrs.  Higby 

"     5     John  Hincksman,  yr  child. 

"     21   Benj.  Smith,  yr  mother 

"     31  John  Roods,  for  Mrs  "Stunfsent". 

"     25  Chas   McEvers,   wife  Mary,  inviting  and  tending  12/, 
bell  5/  six  carriers  2  pounds  8.  pall  8/ 
1779 

Jan  3  Benj.  smith,  yr  father. 
Feb  4     Mrs.  Rose  for  Mrs  van  "Waggen" 

Feb  9 for  yr  wife 

Feb  24  Saml.  Skidmore  sr.,  bell  for  Robt.  Denton 

Mar  6  Jos  French,  for  French  captain 

Ap   14  Aaron  Von  Nostrand,  yr  child 

Ju  4  Derick  Bergen,  yr  wife 

July  15  M.  Lott,  for  young  woman 

"     7     Jacob  Ogden,  for  mrs.  van  Hoock 
Aug  7     Mrs.  Steed's  executors,  her  grave 
Aug  14  Nath'l  Mills,  yr  wife 

"      18  John  Cornell,  for  John  Cornell  "at  Ferry". 

"      31  Robt.  Denton's  Executors,  bell 

"      30  John  Stone,  yr  father 
Sept  I     Nathl.  Mills  executor,  his  grave 

"  12  Mrs.  Brewerton,  Col.  Brewerton,  cleaning  the  church 
12/  digging  grave  burying  corpse  i  pound  12  inviting  16/, 
bell  5/ 

"     28  Ben.  Creed,  bell  for  yr  wife 


354  ORIGIN    AND    HISTORY 

"     30  Hope  Mills,  yr  child 
Oct  8     Mr.  Ogden,  for  Mr.  John  Colyer,   (Coyler),  pall,  bell, 
six  carriers. 

"    10 ,  a  french  captain 

"      "    Mr.    (Geo.)    Folliot,  "for  Mrs.   "Snocke"   pall,  bell,   in- 
viting carriers. 

"    14  Luke  Bergen,  yr  son 

"    27  John  Gatter,  yr  child 
Nov.  2     John  Doughty  for  Geo.  "Bacti" 

"      18  Mrs.  Thadford,  yr  daughter. 

"      27 ,  yr  child 

Dec.  17  Major  Bowden,  yr  wife,  carriers  &c. 

"     19  John  Smith,  yr  wife :  &  digging  up  a  soldier's  wife  & 
burying  her  again  32/ 

"     21  Mrs.  Dean,  yr  husband 
1780 

Jan  II   Mr.  Livingston  for  Mrs.  Gould 
"     20  John  Dunbar  for  Mrs.  Willett 
"     29  Mr.  Anderson,  for  Mr.  "Goram's"  child 
Feb  14  Mr.  Burnet,  for  Mr.  Williamson 
May  II  Tunis  Bergen,  yr  brother  John 

"     12  Daniel  Whitehead,  yr  brother  Benj. 

"     23  John  "Stiles",  yr  son  John,  4  carriers 

"     Capt.  Wilmot,  for  a  young  man 
Ju  II  Jost  Van  Brunt,  yr  child 
"    4       "         "  "        yr  wife 

Jul  6     Chas  McEvers,  Mr.  Thomas'  negro 
"     28  Mrs.  Nancy  Cebra,  bell  for  yr  mother 
"     10  Mr.  MacKolye  for  Capt.  Dickson 
Aug  2y  Mrs.  Willett,  pall 

"      31  Wm.  Dudley,  yr  mother 
Sept  I     Mrs.  Thadford.  for  Mr.  "CofTon" 

"     4     Mrs.  "Clouse"  (Clowes)  for  "Jan"  Thane 

"     5     Mrs  (Jacob)  Ogden  for  Dr.  Ogden  &  putting  up  stone 
2/  dollar  lent  to  mr.  Bellard.  July  20  1784. 

"     6     Capt.  Clout,  yr  child 

"     13  Gilbert  Rose,  yr  child 

"     8     Daniel  Whitehead,  yr  father  (Capt.  Benjn.) 

"     13  Thos  Rochford  for  John's  grave 

"     10  Edward  Willett  for  Johana  Clowes 


OF    GRACE    CHURCH  355 

"     14  Geo.  Dunbar,  yr  child 

"      "    John  Van  Lue,  "Nancychild"  6/ 

"     20  Mrs  Horsfield,  yr  husband 

"      30  Mrs.  Thadford,  for  a  man 
Oct  I     Mrs  Sackett,  yr  husband,  tombstone  2/ 

"    3     John  Snedeker,  for  Capt.  Bowers 

"    4     Capt.  Anderson,  yr  child 

"    5     Edward  Willett,  yr  wife 
i;^8o 

Oct  9     Mrs.  Macknelly,  yr  husband 

Oct  15  Sarjent  Towers   for   Sarjent  "Stuerd"   Gr.   Mast.   23rd. 
Reg.  Grenadiers. 

"    24  Gen.  Delancy  for  Major  Waller,  digging  grave  10/  bell 
5/  inviting  and  tending  i6/,  pall  4/ 

"   27  Mr.  Hartang,  yr  child 
Nov.  5     John  Stone,  for  Capt.  "Stils" 

"      8     Capt.  "Striman",  yr  child 
Dec  I     Capt.  Ludlam,  yr  son 

"     12  Capt.  Stringman,  for  mrs  Fish 
1781 
Jan  2     Capt.  Hoogland,  pall 

"     12  Col.  Hamilton,  pall  &  attending,  8/,  4/ 

"     14  John  Van  Lue,  pall  for  yr  daughter 

"     26  Mr.  gorum  (Gorham),  yr  child 
Feb  23  John  Gatore  yr  child 
Ap  19  Jas  Huston,  yr  child 

Mar  13  Dr.  Arding  for  Capt.  Housman,  Barrack  Master 
May  17  Capt.  Whitehead  for  Major  Gilbert's  wife 
"     21  "Leften"  Ward,  yr  child 
"     30  Mrs  Thadford,  for  a  boy 
"     27  Mrs  "Morronson",  yr  daughter 
Ju  29  John  Bergen,  yr  child 
Jul  3     Rulef  Durye,  yr  child 

"     4     Rich.  Wiggins,  yr  child 

"     5     Major  Gilbert,  yr  child 
Aug  3     Amos  Mills,  yr  brother  Samuel 
Aug  18  Capt  "Clout",  yr  child 

"      25  Phillip  Skinner,  for  Mrs  Combes,  4  carriers,  32/ 

"      28  Jos  "Feel"  (Field),  for  mrs.  Horsefield 
Sept  3     Wm.  Steed,  for  mrs  Ropkins'  child 


356  ORIGIN    AND    HISTORY 

"     7     Mr.  Draper,  yr  child 
"     "     Left.  Anderson,  vr  child 
"      lO 

"     13  Capt.  Hoogland,  pall 
"     17      " 

"     14  Nicholas  Jones,  yr  wife 
"     23  Ensign  Barnard,  wife 
Oct  5     Capt.  Stringman  for  Mrs  "Catran"  Betts 
"    8     Mrs  Nancy  Cebra.  bell  for  yr  sister 
"     9  Daw  Ditmas,  pall 
"     8     Wm.  Steed,  for  Mrs.  Ropkins'  child 
Oct  19  Antony  Terrel,  yr  child 
Nov  14  Mrs.  Denton,  yr  husl:)and 

"     25  Andrew  Ritchie,  yr  wife,  bell  pall,  tending 
"     30  Dr.  "Feel"   (Field)    for  laying  yr  wife   (Cath.  Brinley) 
aged  23  yrs.  in  church  5  pounds,  grave  i  pound,  4  taking  up 
church  floor  12/  4  carriers  i  pound  12,  bell  5/  pall  4/.  invit- 
ing &c  18/. 
Dec  30  Thos  Rochford  for  Lieut.  Steadman,  64th.  Comp.  Gren- 
adiers. 
1782 

5or  2     John  Moore,  yr  daughter. 
"     13  Nicholas  Jones,  yr  child 

"     18  Wm.  Bogle  for  Mr.  "Heggie",  4  carriers  i  pound  12. 
"     20  Mr.  "Selye",  yr  child 
Feb  20  Mr.  "Gorom",  yr  child 
May  I     Read  ''Riding",  yr  father 

"     4     Parish  of  Jamaica  for  one  of  Jas  "Hesters"  child  10/ 
"     17  John  Waters,  yr  child 
Jul   12  Jas  Creighton,  yr  mother   (buried)   in  the  church  20/ 

"     31   Dr.  Smith,  yr  son  in  law's  child. 
Aug  19  Major  (Thos)  Leonard,  yr  wife  Mary 

Sep  2 for  Major  Campbell  of  71st  Reg. 

Sep  15  Thos  Welling  for  Tunis  Polhemus 

Oct  8  Anne  Hinchman  for  yr  brother  Thomas 

1782 

Nov  7     Mrs  Smith,  yr  husband 

"     16  Isaac  Pettit,  yr  child  ^ 

"     27  Mrs  Dunbar,  yr  husband 


OF    GRACE    CHURCH  357 

1783 

Feb  9     Wm.  Puntine,  yr  child 
"     15  Jos  Dunbar,  yr  child 
"     28  Wm.  Gleane,  yr  daughter 
Ap  2     Parish  of  Jamaica  "for  one  of  James  Heger"  8/ 

"     30  Capt.  Betts  for  Capt.  Thos  Harriot 
Jul  23  "Agent  of  Deneas  Rigmant"  grave  for  a  Capt,  bell,  &  pall 
Aug  I  Jas  Creighton,  for  Capt.  Solomon  Davis,  grave  10/  bell 

&pall 
Sep  16  John  Van  Lue,  yr  father 

Nov  17  Chas  Mc  Evers  for  Mrs  Bibbe,  tending  &  inviting  18/, 
bell  &  pall  going  to  N.  York  i6/,  4  carriers  12/ 
"     30  Wm.  Puntine  yr  child 
Dec  29  Parish  of  Jamaica,  for  Catharine  Wiggins 
1784 

Jan  9  Jacob  Bergen  for  Sias  Smith 
Mar  I     Capt.  Ludlam,  yr  wife 
"     28  Edward  Bardin  for  Wm.  "Bhemfeel"  pall  &  bell 
"     30  Mr.  Selye,  yr  child 
Ap  21   Mr.  Sackett's  Executors  for  Mrs  Sackett 
May  9     Chas  Mc  Evers  for  child  of  Capt.  Bibbs 

"     21  Amos  Mills,  for  Joshua  Carpenter,  bell  5/ 
Aug  20  David  Lamberson,  bell  5/ 
Sep  17  Wm.  Betts,  yr  wife 
Oct  12  John  Williamson,  pall  &  tending  4/  &  6/. 

"    26     Mr.  Fleming,  bell  for  yr  child 
Dec  18  Mrs  "Laddae",  yr  husband 
1785 

Ap  16  John  H.  Smith,  yr  father  12/ 
"     17  Gilbert  Rose,  yr  wife 
"     19  Rev.  Mr.  Burnet,  grave  for  yr  child  4/ 
Sep  4    Jacob  Durye,  yr  mother,  bell  5/ 
"     15  John  Bell,  for  Jas  Slack 
"     21  Thos  Welling,  yr  father 
1786 

Ap  29  Capt.  Scot,  tending  funeral  of  yr  wife  9/ 
May  24  Christopher  Smith,  "Ellick"  10/,  bell  5/,  tending  8/ 
Oct  24  Lambert  Moore,  pall  4/ 
Dec  4     Chris*tr.  Smith  for  Mr.  "Shinlar" 
"     16         "  "       for  Mrs.   Hammersly  in  the  church    16/ 


358  ORIGIN    AND    HISTORY 

1787 

Jan   14  Jas  Willett,  pall  for  Judge  Willett 

"     23  John  Wiggins,  yr  daughter  "Cresse"  8/ 
May  I  Mrs.  Skidmore,  bell  4/ 
Aug  18  Garret  Borland,  yr  wife,  bell  &  pall 
Sept  16  Chas.  Welling,  yr  wife 

— ■ John  Smith,  yr  mother,  Peter  Smith's  widow 

1788 

Jan  9  John  Smith,  yr  wife,  bell  5/ 
Feb   14  Jacob  Carpenter,  yr  son,  bell  5/ 

Jan  12  Christr.  Smith  Mr.  Thos  Colgan  in  the  church  20/.  tend- 
ing &  cleaning  the  church  16/,  pall,  &  bell  9/ 
Feb  28  Mr.  Selye,  yr  child  8/ 
Mar  18  Mr.  •'Trau(v)es",  yr  daughter,  bell 
Ju  7     John  Hincksman,  yr  child 
"    18     Capt.  Ludlam's  Executors,  for  Capt.  Ludlam 
Oct  28  Mr.  llonne,  for  Mr.  Smith — Thos  Smith  from  England 
17S9 
Mar  13    "         "         for  Martha  "Holberd" 

"     17  Jost  Van  Brunt  for  Benj.  Cornell's  child 

"     23      "       "         "         yr  son  Rutgert 
May  —  Daniel  Tuttle,  yr  child 
July  —  Mr.  LefTert  for  Mr.  Conklin's  child  5/ 
1790 

Jan  6  Willett  Skidmore  for  Mrs  Whitehead  3  funeral  bells  14/ 
Feb  4  Daniel  Tuttle  for  John  Tuttle 
May  17  Timothy  Denton,  bell 
Ju  24  Christr.  Smith  for  Rev.  Joshua  Bloomer,  in  the  church  20/ 

cleaning  church  4/  tolling  bell  3  times  15/, 
Jul  24  Daniel  "Kissam"  (lawyers)  for  Mrs.  Betts,  Sarah. 
Aug  17  Piatt  Smith  for  Mrs,  Smith 

"      23  Benj.  Carpenter  yr  grandson  John  Sutherland 
Sep  5     Mrs.  Mary  Steed,  yr  husband  Mr.  Steed 

"      10  Benj.  Carpenter,  Mrs.  Sutherland's  child  Jennet  open- 
ing grave. 

"     22  Dr.  Ogdcn,  Mrs.  Ogden  &  bell 
Oct  14  John  Gleen,  yr  father. 
Nov.  18  Mr.  Hewlett,  yr  child 
Dec.  20  Mr.  Rowland,  yr  wife's  sister 


OF    GRACE    CHURCH  359 

1791 

Ap  2^  Mr  Selye,  yr  wife 

Jan  3     Abm.    Ditmas    &   Walter   Smith    overseers   of   poor   of 

Jamaica  grave  for  John  Moore  8/  bell  3/ 
"     18  Jas  Waters,  yr  sister  Oeggy,  bell  &  pall,  the  other  two 

bell  6/ 
May  I     Mr.  Lewis,  pall  for  (Mr.)  Robt  Crommeline  4/  (He  d. 

Sp.  28.  age  J 2,) 
"     10  Mr.  Fairchild  for  Mrs  Sherlock 
14  Jeremiah  Valentine,  yr  wife 
Aug  9  Samuel  Sackett  for  Jos  Sackett 
Oct  16       "  "         yr  child 

De  20  Jas  Waters,  yr  child 
1792 

Jan  16  Mrs  Whitehead,  yr  husband  (Capt  Danial  W.) 
Feb  16  Wm.  Smith,  bell  for  Mrs  Borland's  child 
May  2     Aaron  V.  Nostrand,  my  son  Joseph 
May  28  Mrs  Herriman,  bell 
Nov  8  John  Williamson,  yr  child 

1793 

Jan  25  Benj.  Carpenter  Mrs  Sutherland's  child  Maria  died  feb.  28 

Ap  10  Isaac  Pettit,  3^r  child 

Jul   19  Wm  Bellerd,  yr  child  &  "moving  of  it"  6/ 

31   Mary  Colyer,  grave  for  her  son  in  law  Holstead's  child 

1793 

Aug  23  Benj.  Carpenter  for  Kezia  Combs 

"      24  Jas  Waters,  yr  child 
Aug  30  John  Messenger,  bell  for  Rich.  Roods 
Sep   I   Nath'l  Beets,  yr  child 
Sep  6  Jos  Morris  (barber),  bell 
Nov  I     Jas  Waters,  yr  child 

"     18  Stephen  Voris,  bell 
Dec  8  Thos  Betts,  yr  sister 

1794 

Jan  21   Obadiah  Leech,  yr  child 
Feb  8  Wm  Ludlum's  Executors,  bell 
Sep   10  Capt.  Conklin.  bell  for  yr  wife 

"     13  Jas  Lawrence,  pall 

"     16  Amos  Mills,  bell  for  yr  mother 
Oct  12  Jsaac  Bennet,  bell 


360  ORIGIN    AND    HISTORY 

Nov  lo  Jas  Waters,  yr  child 

Dec  lo  Col.  Willet,  yr  father,  3  bells  15/ 

"     15  Major  Mc  Neill  yr  child,  3  bells  15 

"     28  Benj.  Carpenter,  yr  father 

1795 

May  I  Sarah  Hinchman,  yr  sister  Nancy 

Ju  7  Mr.  Cock,  yr  wife 

Jul  10  Thos  Higby,  bell  for  yr  father 

Au  16  John  Hinchman,  bell  for  Mr.  Purdy 

Sep  7  Aaron  V  Nostrand,  yr  son  Thomas 

Oct  II  Thos  Smith,  yr  mother,  bell 

"    13  Wm.  Warne,  yr  wife 
Oct  24  Nicholas  Everet,  bell  for  yr  mother 
No  6     John  Bergen,  yr  child 

"     30  Mrs.  Nancy  Cebra,  bell  for  yr  sister  Catharine 
1796 

Jan  9  John  Hinchman,  yr  son 
Mar  4     Hewlett  Creed,  bell  for  yr  child 

"     15  Sam'l  Simmons,  for  Wm  Simmons 

"     28  Benj.  Carpenter,  "grave  for  the  Barran"  12/,  bell  &  pall 
Ju  29  Jas  Herriman.  bell  for  Thos  Denton 
Jul  I  Mr.  Van  Wicklen  grave  for  Cap.  Wood,  bell  &  pall 
Aug  5     John  Dudley,  yr  wife 

"      9     Christr.  Smith,  Mrs.  "Abolwy" 

29  Mr.  Beekman  pall  for  yr  father  (Gerardiis  B.) 
Sep  19  John  Hinchman,  yr  grandchild 
Nov  28  Jas  Smith,  bell  for  yr  child 
1797 

Ap  30  Jas  Smith,  bell  for  yr  child 
Aug  7  Christr.  Smith,  Fleming  Colgan  in  the  church  20/  bell 

&  pall  9/,  cleaning  &  airing  the  church  20/. 
Sept  5     Mrs.  Rodman,  yr  husband,  bell 

"     21  Jas  Waters,   Mr.    (Wm.   Martin)   Johnson    12/,  pall  & 
bell  9/ 
Oct  2     Wm.  Warne,  yr  son  Wm. 

"    23  Isaac  Bennet,  bell  for  yr  mother 
Nov  30  Hewlett  Creed,  bell  for  yr  child 
1798 
Feb  I  John  Ditmas,  yr  mother  12/,  bell  &  pall 


OF    GRACE    CHURCH  361 

Ap  28  Mrs  Johnson,  yr  husband  12/ 

Ju  8         "  "  yr  child 

May  25  Capt.  Clarkson,  yr  father,  bell,  pall  &c 

Ju  19  Benj.  Carpenter,  yr  mother 

Sep  6  Chas  Rouch,  for  Mr  Warne 

Oct  I  Rev.  Mr.  Kitletus's  estate,  bell  5/ 

Nov  12  Mrs  Brownjohn,  Mr.  Hubbard's  (child)  grave  8/ 

De  17  Piatt  Smith  Jr..  for  Mrs  Brown 

1799 

Jan.  8  Jos  Thatford,  yr  child. 

1799 

Mar  16  Josiah  Brown,  yr  dau.  Polly 

Ap  7     Wm.  Prince,  pall  for  Mrs  Pane 

"     16  Josiah  Brown,  small  grave  4/ 
Ju  13  Derick  Bergen's  estate,  for  Mr.  Bergen 
Jul  Q.'j  Capt.  Depeyster,  yr  father  "departing"  bell  3/  grave  12/ 

inviting  12/.  bell  &  pall 
Aug  10  Thos  Smith,  small  grave  for  yr  son's  child  4/ 
Sep  8  Mrs  "Duffel",  yr  child 
1800 

Jan  25  Amos  Mill's  Executors,  bell  for  Amos  Mills 
Mar  6  Mr.  Doelard,  yr  wife 

Ap  5  Nancy  Whitehead,  yr  mother,  tolling  bell  2/,  grave  10/ 
May  3     Josiah  Brown,  small  grave 

"     24  Daniel  Kissam  yr  wife 
Sept   I     Jost  Van  Brunt  Jr,  yr  child 

"     3     Nath'l  Roods,  bell  for  yr  mother  5/ 

"     10  Benj.  Creeds  Executors,  bell  for  him 

"     22  Carey  Dunn  bell  for  yr  wife 

"     26  John  Van  Brunt,  yr  child 
Oct  I   Mr.  Dheland,  yr  child 
Dec  6     Gilbert  Rose,  yr  child 

"     7     John   Bremner,  bell 

"     14  Nath'l  Denton,  bell 

"     31  John  Thatford,  yr  mother 
1801 
Mar  24  Capt.  Hoogland,  pall 

''     15  Mr.  Woolfenden,  yr  dau. 

"     30  Jas  Waters,  Mrs  Smith's  bell 

"     31  Wm.  Prince,  pall  for  Mrs  Browne 


362  ORIGIN    AND    HISTORY 

"      "    Jas  Van  Lew,  yr  grand  mother,  bell 
May  13  Benj.  Thurston,  yr  mother,  bell. 
Ju  14  Willett  Skidmore  "Mr.  Hendrs"  daughter 
Ju  20  Jas  Foster,  yr  child,  bell 
"    21  John  Messenger,  yr  sister,  bell 
Aug  16  John  I  Skidmore,  yr  wife,  bell 
Oct  I     Daniel  "Balye's"  (Baylis)   Executors,  bell  for  him 

"     2     Hewlett  Creed,  yr  child,  bell 
Oct  8     Major  Mc  Neil,  yr  child 

"     26  Mr.  Selye.  yr  child 
1802 
Jan  2     Benj.  Carpenter,  Mrs  Sutherland 

10  John  Messenger,  bell  for  yr  father,  digging  grave 
Feb  8        "  "  taking  him  up  &  moving  him  16/ 

"     17  John  Thatford,  putting  up  3  tombstones  8/ 

"     24  David  Sprong,  bell  for  Mr.  Van  Lew  5/.  bell  of  Dutch 
church  5/ 

"     25  John  Rood's  estate,  bell  for  Mr.  John  Roods 
Ap  6  Jas  Creighton,  grave  for  Dn  Ogden  12/.  bell  5/ 
May   14  Mrs  Creed,  bell 

"     20  Mr  Genet,  yr  child,  bell 
Ju  7     Capt.  Depeyster,  yr  sister,  12/.  Dutch  church  bell  5  meet- 

ingbell  9/  bell  5/  pall  8/  inviting  12/ 
"    17  Jos  Tuttle,  yr  wife,  bell 
Jul  8  Jacob  Bergen,  bell  for  Tunis  Bergen 
Aug  2     Hewlett  Creed,  yr  child,  bell 

"      2T^  Capt.  (Zebediah)  Story's  estate,  his,  bell 
Sept  3  Jas  Waters'  estate,  his  grave 
Oct  12  Isaac  Roods,  bell  for  yr  child 
Oct  31   Rev  Mr.  "Fuethes",  bell  for  Mrs  "Tittes". 
Nov  2     Jacob  Bergen.  Abm.  Bergen's  bell 

"     15  Daniel   Ludlum,  yr  wife,  bell 
De   17  Capt.  Depeyster,  grave  for  yr  mother 

"    20  Wm.  Ludlum,  vr  son,  bell 
1803 
Jan   10  Thos  Welling,  for  Mrs  Polhemus 

"     16  John   Hinchman   Jr.   yr   son   John's   wife 
Mar  23  Nath'l   Ludlum.  yr  mother,  bell 

"     25  Luke  Bergen's  estate,  bell  for  him 

"     31   A\'m.  Puntine,  yr  wife 


OF    GRACE    CHURCH  363 

May  9    Josiah  Brown,  Mrs  Dickens'  child 

"     lo  Ann  Bergen's  estate,  bell 

"      "    Jas  Mackrell  Sr.,  grave  for  Mrs  Fish 
Ap  21   Chas  Smith,  bell  for  yr  father 
May  31   David  Springsteen,  pall 

Ju  3  Mr.  Leffert's  estate,  grave  for  him  (Isaac  Lefiferts) 
Jul  24  Capt.  Depeyster,  for  Miss  Eve  Depeyster 
Aug  24  Josiah  Brown,  yr  dau. 
Sep  3     Rev.   (Calvin)   White,  yr  childs  grave 

"     4     Abm.  Skinner,  yr  mother  Margaret  (age  74.5.5.) 

"     5     Mr.  "Colter",  pall 

"     13  Nich.  Everet  Jr's  estate,  bell  for  Mrs.  Everet 

"     21  Wm.   Puntine,  yr  child 
Nov  8     John  D.  Smith,  yr  wife,  bell 

"     13  Hewlett  Creed,  yr  child,  bell 
1804 

Jan  25  Capt.  John  Dawson,  for  Mr.  Comes 
Jan  29  Mrs  Fish's  estate,  bell 

Feb  4  John  Skidmore.  yr  wife,  Dutch  &  Meeting  bells. 12/ 
Mar  21  Thos  Balye  (Baylis),  yr  wife,  bell  5/ 
Ap  8  Christr.  Smith,  yr  wife  (Mary  Colgan.bell  6/.  age  71 
May  9  John  I  Skidmore's  estate,  his  bell 
Ju  II   Othniel  Smith,  yr  mother,  bell 
Aug  22  Mrs  Hazard  mr.  Delafield,  inviting  son  8/ 
Aug  26  Major  Mc  Neil,  yr  child 

"      29  Increase  Carpenter,  yr  son,  bell 
Oct  25  Abiathar  Roods,  yr  sister  Van  Dam,  bell 
Nov  8     John  Rood's  estate,  his  widow 

"     12  Nich,  Everet,  yr  son,  bell 

"     22  Jacob  Carpenter,  bell  for  Mrs.  Oakley 
1805 

Jan  17  John  Everet's  estate,  his  bell 
"       "  Benj.  Thurston's  estate,  his  bell 

"     31  Christr.  Smith's  estate,  digging  away  the  snow  16/  he 
died  Jan  29 
Feb  4  Mr.  Jas  Morrell  for  Mr.  "Miers"  16/ 
Jan  31  John  Everet's  estate,  bell  for  his  widow 
Ap  19  John  Hinchman's  estate  (his)  grave  for  John  Hinchman 
May  I   Frank  Masten's  estate  (his)  bell  for  Mr.  Masten. 

"     9  Daniel  Everet's  estate,  bell  for  Mr  Everet 


364  ORIGIN    AND    HISTORY 

Ju  14  Mr  Jas  Smith's  estate,  bell  for  Mrs.  Smith 
Sept  30  Danial  Gracy,  bell-  for  yr  wife 
Dec  8     Parish  of  Jamaica,  for  Wm  Betts 

'*     "     John  H  Smith's  estate,  pall 

"     II  Jost  Van  Brunt  Jr.,  vr  child 
i8v-"6 
Jan  5     Jas  Morrel  for  Mrs  Voris's  child 

"     20  John  Dunn,  yr  child 
Feb  8     Jas  Mackrell  sr,  yr  wife 

"     13  Rich.  Wiggins,  yr  mother 
Mar  9     Stephen  Voris's  estate,  his  bell 

"     13  Nich.  Smith's  estate,  bell  for  Mrs  Smith 
May  7  Jacamiah  Valentine,  his  grave 
Ju  6     Benj.  Hinchman,  yr  brother 
"    18  Stephen  Hicks'  yr  dau. 
Jul   16  Nath'l  Denton's  estate,  his  bell 

"    Hewlett  Creed  his  bell  for  his  child 
Oct  10  Mrs  P  Smith,  pall 
Ju  6  Capt.  Daniel  Thome's  estate,  pall 

"  Wm  Prince,  pall  for  Mrs  Brown 
"    "  Mr.  Garden,  pall 

"    "  John   Skidmore.   sodding  &  putting  up   wife's   tombstone 
Nov  16  "  "  grave  for  yr  child 

"     20  John  Dunn,  yr  child 
De  2  Abm.  Coles  vr  wife 
1807 
Mar  I     Mrs  Ann  I  Depeyster's  estate  wid  of  Jos.  her  grave 

"     20  Daniel  Ludlum's  estate,  his  bell 

'*     26  Nath'l  Smith  at  Cider  Mill,  bell  for  yr  wife 
May  14  Mr.  Nath'l  Austin's  estate,  his  grave 
Ju  21  Increase  Carpenter's  estate,  bell 
''    15  Dudley  Brown,  yr  wife 
Aug  15  Josiah  Brown,  for  Mr.  John  Dudley 

"      24  Aaon  V.  Nostrand,  yr  wife  12/ 

"      31  Jacob  Carpenter,  bell  for  Benj.  Wiggins 
Sep  13  Cors.  Creed,  bell  for  Mrs  Ostrand 

"     18  Nich.  Everets  estate,  bell  for  Mr.  E 

"     20  late  Nich.  Smith's  estate,  bell  for  Mrs  Smith 

"     22  Abm.  Coles,  yr  father 
Oct  5  Caleb  Mills,  bell  for  Wid  of  Ob.  Mills 


OF    GRACE    CHURCH  365 

Dec  6  Sheriff  Wyckoff.  bell  for  yr  dau, 

1808 

Jan  31  John  Bremner's  estate,  his  bell,  died  Jan  29 

Ap  14  Wm.  Prince,  pall  for  Mrs.  Stratton 

"     28  Thos  Martin,  bell  yr  wife 
Ju  13  Jost  Van  Brunt  Jr.,  yr  Wife 

"    26  Mr.  Disosway,  pall 
Jul  6  David  Rowland  for  Wm.  Taylor 
Aug  22  Mr.  (Edward)  Parker,  bell  yr  wife 

"      30  Neh'h  Hincksman,  bell  for  aunt  Phebe 
Sept  4  Mr.  Griswolds'  estate,  grave  for  Thos  G.,  inviting  the 

clergy  4/  bell,  pall  bearers 
Nov  6  Wm.  Puntine,  for  Mrs  Price  late  from  "Island". 

"     7  Mr.  Eigenbrodt,  yr  child,  bell 
Dec  14  John  Wooffendale,  yr  mother 
1809 
Jan  12  Daniel  Everet's  estate,  bell 

"     13  John  Suydam's  estate,  pall 
Mar  I  Jas  Mackerell  Sr.,  bell  for  Ambrose  Fish  (a  leaf  or  two 
seems  lost) 
''     3  Neh'h  Hincksman,  bell  for  yr  mother 
"     8  Jas  Morrell  for  Mrs  Miller 
Ap  2     Abiathur  Roods  estate,  his  bell 

"     9     Samuel  Tuttle  for  Wm  Ennis — p.  by  Overseers  of  poor. 

"     10  Mrs  Creed's  estate,  (wid.  of  Benj.  C.)  bell  &  pall 
May  18  Wm.  Bellerd.  yr  wife,  bell 
Aug  16  Mr  Carman,  yr  child 

"      26  Joe  Rose,  yr  dau 

30  Jas  Morrell,  for  Mrs  Miller's  child 
Sep  28  Mr.  Newman,  yr  wife 
Aug  30  Cary  Dunn,  yr  child,  bell 
Nov  12  Mr.  John  Troup,  yr  child  in  church  &  cleaning  i  pound 

6  chilings 
Dec  17  Mr.  Newman,  yr  child 
1810 
Jan  21   Mr  Gracy,  yr  child,  bell 

"      "    Mr.  Eliphalet  Wickes,  bell  for  Daniel  Minema 

"     22  Jos  Morris's  estate,  his  bell 
Feb  5  Jos  Thatford,  yr  wife 
Ap  5  John  Ludlum's  estate,  his  bell 


366  ORIGIN    AND    HISTORY 

May  5     Daniel  Kissam,  pall 

"     20  Nath'l  Ludlum's  estate,  his  bell 
"     29  Neh'h  Hinchman,  bell  for  yr  brother  John 
Jul  22  Miss  Clarissa  Keteltas's  estate,  her  bell 
Aug  21  Jas  Morrell,  yr  wife 

Oct  28  Widow  of  Luke  Bergen's  estate,  bell  for  yr  widow 
Dec  2     Nich,  Jones'  estate  for  Mrs  Jones 

"     20  Daniel  Gracy,  bell  for  yr  wife 
1811 
Feb  3     Chas  Crommeline's  estate,  Pall 

"     26  Daniel  Gracy,  yr  son  bell 
"     27  Jos  Dunbar,  for  Mrs  Coles 
Mar  5     Cors.  Lamberson,  yr  wife 

"     29  Caleb  Mills,  yr  brother  Nathaniel 
Ju  9     Simeon  Smith,  yr  dau.,  bell 
Ju  17  Mr.  Tuttle  Reeve's  estate,  his  funeral  bell 
Jul  4    John  Ditmas,  yr  child 

"     7     Thos  Welling's  estate,  for  Mr.  Welling 

"     17  Samuel  Carman,  yr  child 
Aug  13  Augustus  Sackett,  yr  child 

"      15  Mr.  Roberson.  yr  child 

"      22  Isaac  Pettit,  yr  dau. 

"      28  Neh'h  Smith's  estate,  his  bell 
Sep  4     John  Day  Smith,  yr  son,  bell 
Sep  3     Mrs  LefTert's  estate,  her  grave 

"     27  Benj.  Everet,  yr  wife  bell 

"     3     Wm.  Meke,  yr  child 
Oct  6     Wm.  Creed  Sr.  bell  yr  wife 

"     13  Sarah  Hinchman's  estate,  her  grave 

"      "    Jas  Mackrell,  his  son 

"     10  John  W.  Welling,  yr  child 

"     31  Mr.  Jonson  ("Masson"),  yr  child 
Dec  6  Hope  Rood's  estate,  his  bell 
1812 

Jan  7  Sheriff  WyckofF.  yr  wife 
Feb  18  Samuel  Denton's  estate,  his  bell 

"     19  John  Welling's  estate,  his  grave 

"     28  Jos  Oldfield's  estate,  his  grave 
Ap  6     John  Hewlett  Sr.,  estate,  pall 

"     12  Jos  Robinson,  bell  for  yr  dau.  Sarah 


OF    GRACE    CHURCH  367 

"     14  Jas  Mackerell  Sr.,  yr  son  James 
"     18  Caleb  Mills,  yr  brother  Peter 
May  3     David  Lamberson  Jr,  bell  yr  child 
May  8     Neh'h  Everet's  estate,  his  bell 

"     21  Samuel  Tuttle's  estate,  Mr.  Tuttle's  bell 

"     31  Jos  Tuttle,  bell  yr  brother  Thad. 
Ju  5     Daniel  Kissam's  estate  (lawyer)  his  grave 
"    6     Wm.  Puntine.  bell  for  Rich  Van  Lue 
"    9     John  Van  Lue's  estate,  bell  for  Mr.  V.  Lue  at  Beaver  Pond 
'*    21  Jost  V.  Brunt  Jr.  estate,  his  grave 
"  30  John  V,  Lue  Sr.  estate,  bell 
Jul  I  Samuel  Eldert,  yr  grand  child 
Aug  I  Oliver  Stickland,  yr  child  sod  &  grass  12/ 
Sep  25  Jeffrey  Smith,  bell  yr  wife 
Oct  16  Andrew  Napier,  yr  child 
Nov  25  Nath'l  Ludlum,  IdcII  yr  mother 
1813 

Jan  16  Wm  Smith  ("holer"),  bell  yr  child 
Feb  14  Wm  Coler  estate,  Pall 
Jan  18  Jas  Denton,  bell  yr  mother 
Mar  21   Mrs  Welling's  estate,  her  grave,  wid.  of  Thos 
May  3     Dr  N  Shelton,  small  grave 

"     7     Jas  MorrelTs  estate,  his  grave 

"     7     Jacob  Carpenter,  bell  for  yr  wife 

"     28  Jas  Tuttle's  estate,  his  bell 
Ju  28  Jos  Thatford,  yr  child 
Jul  18  Mr.  Sprous  (Sproul)  estate,  his  bell 
Aug  26  Benj.  Everet's  estate,  bell 

"      27  Wm.  Creed  Sr,  estate,  his  bell 
Sep  9     John  Coit,  bell  yr  child 

"     II  Caleb  Mill's  estate,  his  grave 
Oct  8  Mr.  Whit  (Garden),  yr  wife  bell  &  pall 
Nov  16  Major  Mc  Neil,  Mrs  Mc  Neil,  12/ 

Ap  7  Daniel  Kissam's  estate 

Dec.  T2  Willett  Skidmore,  yr  child 
1814 

Jan.  10  Uriah  Hendrickson,  yr  child 
"     29  Wm.  Forbush's  estate,  his  bell 
Feb  5     John  Durye  Sr.  estate,  his  bell 

"     9     Jost  V.  Brunt  Sr.  estate,  his  grave  12/,  pall  4  bell  6/ 


368  ORIGIN    AND    HISTORY 

"     24  Josiah  Brown  Jr.  yr  child. 
Mar  I  Joe  Rose,  yr  son  (est.  Laurene  Roe,  son  Jas  Roe 
Ap.  3     Henry  Hendrickson,  bell  for  Mrs.   "Huberd" 

"     9     Johannis  Lot's  estate,  his  bell 

"     10  Mrs.  Bellerd's  estate,  his  bell 

"     19  Wid.  Welling's  estate,  yr  child 
May  2     Estate  of  Wid.  of  John  Durye  Sr.  her  bell 
"     7     Tredwell  Kissam,  pall 
"     13  Wilmot  Oakley's  estate,  his  bell 
Jii  2  Jos  Sealy  Jr,  yr  child  6/ 
Jul  3     Josiah  Brown  Sr.,  grave  for  Mrs  Brown 

"     12  Mr.  Freeman,  pall 
Aug  I     David  Carpenter,  bell  yr  wife 

"      15  St.  Hicks,  bell  yr  mother 

"      28  David  Lamberson  Jr  bell  yr  child 

"      31  Uriah  Hendrickson,  yr  child 
Sep  26  French  gentleman,  child 
Oct  5  Wm.  Puntine,  for  Mrs  "Bailey" 
De  30  Mrs  Zebediah  Story's  estate,  her  bell 
1815 

Jan  15  Hewlett  Creed,  bell  for  Mrs  Creed 
Feb  4     Mr.  Johnson  "Mason",  yr  child 

"     18  Andrew  Napier,  yr  child 
Mar  28  Samuel  Mills,  bell  yr  daughter 
Ap  8     Mr.  Garden's  estate,  pall 

"     12  Thos  "Balye"  (Baylis),  bell  yr  mother 

"     16  Gilbert  Creed,  bell  yr  wife 
May  7  Josiah  Brown  Jr,  estate,  his  grave 
Jul  15  Samuel  Messenger,  bell  yr  wife 
Ju  4  John  Williamson's  estate,  his  grave  12/ 
Aug  18  Lawrence  Roe,  yr  child  l:)cll  6/ 
Ju  24  John  Rood's  estate,  his  bell 

Aug  22  Rev  Mrs  Faitout,  estate,  bell  for  Rev.  Faitout  6/ 
Sep  18  Jos  Robinson's  estate,  his  bell 

"     21   Parish  of  Jamaica,  Philip  Valentine's  grave  12/,  bell  6/ 
Oct  13  Mrs    Keteltas    estate    "opening    the    grave    for   yr    Mrs 
Keteltas"  12/  bell  6/ 

"     10  Bernardus  Hendricksons,  bell  yr  dau. 

13  John  Keteltas,  opening  grave  for  yr  mother  12/.  bell  6/ 

"     22  Mr.  "Holstead",  yr  child 


OF    GRACE    CHURCH  369 

Nov  i8  Mrs  Brasier,  bell  yr  son 
De  8     Isaac  Brinckerhoff's  estate,  his  bell 
"    20  John  Smith's  estate,  bell  for  Mr.  Smith  at  the  Pond 
1816 

Jan.  6     Jona.  Jones,  bell  yr  son  Isaac 
"     II  John  Dunn,  bell  yr  wife 
"     13  Major  Mc  Neil,  yr  son  Niel 
"     14  Jona.  Jones,  bell  yr  wife 
"     27  Amos  Denton,  bell  yr  wife 
Feb  25  Jacob  Bergen's  estate,  his  bell 
Mar  10  Rev.  Z.  H.  Cooper,  pall  for  yr  brother  Peter 
"     17  Mr.  Wickes  Sr.  bell  yr  wife 
"     19  Samuel  Messenger's  estate  his  bell 
May  28  Oliver  Stickland  yr  wife 
Ju  5     Jas  Sackett,  yr  wife 
"    29  Mrs  Brown,  yr  son  John 

"     "    Tunis  V.  Brunt,  grave  for  Mr.  Vanderbilt  8/ 
Aug  12  Mrs.  Brownjohn,  yr  son  Frank 
Aug  17  Geo.  Codwise,  his  grave 
Sep  21  John  A.  Ditmars,  bell  yr  wife 
"      "    Amos  Mills,  bell  yr  wife 
"     30  Neh'h  Coe,  bell  yr  son  in  law 
Nov  20  Rich.  Creed's  estate,  his  bell 

"     24  Wm.  Ludlum's  estate  bell  for  Judge  Ludlum 
"     2^  Mrs.  Letter's  estate,  her  grave 
1817 

Jan  3     Tunis  Van  Brunt,  grave  for  Mr.  Vanderbilt,  for  his  re- 
mains brought  from  yards  (or  Far)  Rockaway  to  Jam.  ch. 
16/ 
"     13  Jas  Mackell,  grave  yr  wife 
"     29  Abm.  Hendrickson's  estate,  bell 
1816 

Nov.  29  John  W.  Welling,  3'r  child 
Dec.  6     Mr.  Taylor's  estate,  his  bell 

"     9     Miss  Ann  Cebra's  estate,  her  bell 
1817 

Ap  2     Wid.  Wiggin's  estate,  bell  for  Mr.  "Bergen" 
"     4     Johanne's  Polhemus'  estate,  his  grave 
"     20  John  Jones,  bell  yr  wife 
"     21  Samuel  Hendrickson,  bell  yr  wife 


370  ORIGIN    AND    HISTORY 

"     29  Urias  Hendrickson,  yr  wife 
May  16  Joe  Roe,  grave  yr  son  Nathaniel 

"     26  Rev.  Wm.  P.  Cooper,  bell  &  pall,  yr  child 
Jul  9  John  Troup's  estate,  his  grave  16/ 
Aug  3     Jeffrey  Smith,  bell  for  Rich.  Wiggins 
Aug  7     Jas  Foster,  bell  yr  grandchild 
8     Jos  Sealy  Jr.  yr  child 

17  Whitehead  Cornell,  bell  yr  child 

18  'J'hos  Betts'  estate,  his  bell  &  grave 

"      23  Jeffrey  Smith,  bell  for  the  man  that  was  drowned 
Sep  23  David  Piatt,  yr  child 
Oct  13  Isaac  Leffert  for  Jacob  Conklin,  bell  &  pall 

*'     14  Neh'h  Hinchman,  bell  for  yr  brother  Robert 

"     29  Aaron  Cortelyou's  estate,  grave  for  Aaron 
Nov     2  Mr.   Van  "Dund"     (Dine?)     grave    for    Dr.    "Keemers" 

(Keymer) 
Nov  17  Rich,  Creed's  estate,  bell  for  a  son  of  Rich  Creed. 

"     30  Bcnj.  Hinchman.  yr  mother 
1818 

Mar  4     Simon  Smith,  bell  yr  wife 
Ap  8     John  Troup,  taking  up  the  corpse  &  filling  24/ 

"     14  Geo.  Codwise  "  "  "     &  pall  24/ 

"     9     Isaac  Lefferts,  yr  brother  James 

"     10  estate  of  Wid.  of  John  Ludlum.  bell 
May  14  Wm.  Smith  Jr.  bell  yr  child 
"     19     Wid.  Rood's  estate,  bell 
"     28  Dr.  N.  Shelton,  yr  child 
Aug  8     Wm.  Meke,  grave  for  Sarah  Jones 

"      15  Daniel  Kissam,  Pall 
Sep  4  "Joaly"   (Tealy?)   Smith's  bell 
Oct  28  Wm.  Puntine,  bell  for  Mrs  Van  Lue 

"     31  "Lank  Fleank"  bell  yr  dau.  Sarah 
Nov  5         "  "  yr  son  John 

Nov  26  Samuel  Mills,  Jr.  bell 
De  10  Abm.  Lott,  bell 
1819 

Jan  17  St.  Hicks,  yr  child 
Feb  19  Nath'l  Ludlum,  bell  yr  child 
May  10  Andrew  Napier,  yr  child 
Ju  6  Mr.  Rufus  King,  yr  wife  "Mrs  King" 


OF    GRACE    CHURCH  371 

Jul  9     John  Welling,  the  tailor,  yr  child 
"     19  Jacob  Carpenter's  estate,  his  bell 
Aug  18  Elias  Hendrickson's  estate,  his  bell 

"      19  Mrs  Lott 
Oct  3     Jas  Mackerell's  estate,  his  grave 
"     26  Jacob  Smith  bell  for  Judy  Mills 
"      "    Harry  Wiggens,  estate,  bell  for  Mrs  Wiggins 
Nov  2     Wm.  Puntine,  yr  dau.,  bell  &  pall 
"     "     David  Lamberson  Sr.  estate,  his  bell 
"     9     Jacob  Smith,  bell  for  Abigail  Mills 
"     28  Gilbert  Creed,  bell  yr  dau. 
De  2  Thos  Wickes'  estate,  bell  for  him 
1820 

Jan  17  Rich.  Wiggins,  bell  yr  son 
"     22  Nth'l  "Simm — "?  grave  yr  grand  child 
"     28  Mr.  Van  Dine  grave  for  Mr.  Cortelyou 
Feb  7     Uriah  Hendrickson,  yr  child 
"     lo  Aury  Simonson  yr  mother 
"     29  St.  Hicks'  estate,  for  Mr  Hicks 
Ap  14  Noah  Smith,  bell  yr  dau.     Total  766 
1822 

Jan  2^  Aaron  Van  Nostrand,  Sexton  of  this  Parish  was  Buried 
finished  copying  9m.  of  9  A.M.  Aug.  18'  85 

H.  O.  Jr. 

TOMBSTONES 

OLD  INSCRIPTIONS  ON  TOMBSTONES  IN  GRACE  CHURCH  YARD   1846 

Date  of  death  Yrs.  Mo.  Day 
Adalard  Frances  wife  of  Geo.  Oct.    ii   1842     43 

Austin  Nath'l  son  of  Nath'l  &  Ann, 

Boston  May  11   1807    43 


Bugbee  Sandford 

Sep 

23  1834 

25 

Bogardus  Anthony 

Nov 

20  1838 

39 

8 

Bennet  John  H. 

Aug 

12  1846 

51 

I 

I 

Bradlee  Ann  wife  of  Thos 

Jan 

21   1830 

32 

9 

16 

Brush  Eve 

Nov 

15  1843 

75 

Brooks  Wm.  T. 

Nov 

3  1821 

9 

10 

29 

"       Sarah  wife  of  Daniel 

Sep 

10  1827 

62 

II 

10 

"       Daniel  I 

Jan 

13  1830 

79 

10 

28 

Banks  Sarah  wife  of  Capt.  Jacob 

July 

18  1763 

21 

372 


ORIGIN    AND    HISTO'RY 


Betts  Rich,    (son  of  Rich.) 

Mary  (Creed)  wife  of  Rich 
"       Richard 
"       John 

Thomas  of  Hngering  illness 
"       Catharine,  Mrs 
Brown  Eliza  Mary  Ann  child  of 

Josiah     &  (Elizabeth) 
Jas  Lawrence  child  of  Josiah 
&  (Elizabeth) 
"       Mary  wife  of  Dudley 
"       Mary  child  of  Josiah  & 

Elizabeth 
Barrol  Clemence  M.  of  Wm.  H.  & 

Rebecca 
Bogart  Cors.  i. 

Combs  Phebe  S.  W.  of  Willet  &  dau. 

of  D.  C. 
"       Leonard  S. 
Comes  John 
Cornwell  Daniel,  tailor 
Cornwell  John 
Creed  Augustus  of  Wm.  &  Jane  E. 

"       Hamelton 

Callison  Elizabeth  wid.  of  Wm. 

Cortelyou  Aaron 

"         Susan 

Peter 

Jas  G. 

Sarah  Elizabeth  of  Jas  G.  & 

Ann 
Contait  Elizabeth  of  Fr.  H.  &  Ann 
Codwise  Alexr.  H.  of  Geo.  &  Mary 
David  Augustus    " 
"         Theodore  Octavius 
"         Jane   Bynanck 
"         Jas  Nelson 
"         Georgina  Louisa 
Carpenter  Benj. 
Marv 


Nov 

17 

1748 

Z7 

July 

28 

1759 
1742 

77 
56 

May 

10 

1761 

44 

Au 

17 

1817 

58 

2 

27 

Oct 

4 

1781 

^Z 

Aug 

25 

1803 

13 

6 

Feb 

25 

1814 

I 

4 

18 

Ju 

14 

1807 

22 

Mar 

14 

1799 

17 

Jan 

9 

1845 

I 

6 

18 

Feb 

16 

1832 

78 

Ap 

12 

1844 

28 

3 

6 

Aug 

18 

1 841 

— 

9 

10 

Sep 

24 

1770 

65 

<( 

21 

1842 

68 

Aug 

6 

1799 

40 

3 

II 

Ju 

5 

1838 

2 

10 

16 

Jan 

29 

1832 

— 

II 

29 

Dec. 

3 

i84iin52 

Oct. 

21 

1817 

55 

II 

21 

Jan 

26 

1820 

41 

10 

9 

Sep 

25 

1820 

67 

10 

4 

Mar 

9 

1826 

79 

8 

12 

Aug 

18 

1831 

12 

II 

4 

Aug 

10 

1827 

— 

2 

18 

Oct 

18 

1826 

22 

4 

II 

J^ 

20 

1824 

22 

5 

10 

Sep 

12 

1828 

22 

6 

12 

Jan 

20 

i83iin4i 

Nov 

19 

1 836  in  38 

Jan 

18 

I 840 in 28 

bee 

27 

1794 

65 

J" 

18 

1798 

63 

Aug 

27 

1760 

86 

Aug 

9 

1740 

57 

May 

19 

1759 

58 

Oct 

15 

1755 

40 

De 

II 

1755 

76 

Feb 

2 

1844  in  6 

Dec 

28 

1879 

88 

Feb 

7 

1822 in  54 

Sep 

30 

1768 

I 

Ap 

3 

1839 

80 

Jul 

23 

180311172 

Ju 

6 

1802 

Jul 

27 

1 799 in  74 

OF    GRACE    CHURCH  373 

Clowes  Samuel  Esq 
Clowes  Catharine 
"       Samuel  Jr 
"       Joseph 
Clark  Cath,  wife  of  Andrew 
Carter  Caroline  E 

Dawson  Elizabeth  native  of  England 
Elizabeth 
"        Jane  of  Harry  and  Elizabeth 
Depeyster  Cath.   Livingston  wid.  of 

Abn 
Eve  of  Abm.  &  Margaret 
"  Sarah  of  Jas  &  Sarah 

"  James 

"  Sarah  Dec    14  1802  in  75 

Dickson  Capt.  Wm.  of  4th  Com. 

N.  Y.  Vol.  Jul       9  1780 
Dunbar  Mary  wid.  of  Peter  (merchant)  Jan.    13  1767     26 
Dudley  John  Au      14  1807     70 

Mary  Au       6  1796     60 

Duffel  Rich,  of  Edward  &  Eliz.  Sep      7  1799       3       i 

Denton  Jas  of  Lawrence  &  Rebecca        Sep    20  i83oin23 
"       Rebecca        "  "  Dec    30  i834in24 

"       John  Lawrence      "         "  Jan  1870 

"       Lawrence  Oct      2  1836  in  64 

"       Rebecca 
De  Mill  Abm.  of  John  &  Eliz.  Mar  23  I782in   i 

De  Heiland  Lucretia  Josephine 

Caroline  Ann  mary  Louisa 
Colheux  De  Langpre  wife 
of  Henry  Mar     5  1800     22 

Dunbar  Mrs.  Eliza  died  in  N.  Y.  Oct  1816     64 

Eldert  Henry  W.  of  Cors.  &  Jane  May  24  1808       i       i     19 

Abm.  Sep      5  1834     50      8    27 

Eliza  Jan    31   1827     39       i     20 

Henrietta  Ditmas  of  Abm  &  Eliz.  Dec      i   1830      8     11       7 
Samuel  "  "  Oct    20  1830     14       7     27 

Susan  Jane       "  "  Aug   11   1828       i     10 

Caroline  "  "  Nov     6  1820      9       8     20 

Harriet  "  "  Ju      20  1812       3       7     10 


374 


ORIGIN    AND    HISTORY 


Sarah  L.  of  Amb  (S.)  cS:  FJiz  S. 
Henry  " 

Eigenbrodt  L.  E.  A.  born  in  Germany 
Sarah 
Sarah  Elizabeth  of  L.  E. 

A.  &  Sarah 
Patrick  Henry  of  L.  E.  A. 
&  Sarah 
L.  E.  A. 
Fish  Sarah  wid  of  Rich 
Greswold  Thos 

"         Abigail 
Hunter  Wm. 
"       John 

Henry  Clay  of  Wm  &  Adeline 
Hendrickson  Uriah 

Ida 
Hicks  Smith   (innkeeper) 
Jane 
"       Stephen 

Mary 
"       Eliz  of  St.   &   Mary 
"       Sarah  Eliz 
Henderson  Aliigail  Ann  of  Jas  &  Mary 
Hinchman  Miriam  dau.  of  Ob.  &  Eliz. 
Hoogland  Cornelia  \v.  of  John 
Horsfield  Cath.  Ann 
Harvey  Eliz.  wife  of  Thos 
Hosack  Alexn. 

"       Gloriana  C. 
Jessup  Eliza  Ann  wife  of  Edwd. 
Johnson   Wm.   Martin 
Johnson  W.  L. 
Johnson  Mary 

"         Wm.  Gracie 
Samuel  R 
Eliz.  R 
King  Rufus 
"      Mary 
"      Eliz  wife  of  Chas 


Mar 
Dec 
Au 


13 
8 

30 


Nov     6 


Sep 

13 

1828   I 

I 

2 

Ju 

2 

1 844 in  23 

Dec 

10 

1780  34 

Sep 

2 

1808  61 

4 

Oct 

2 

1 834  in 83 

Feb 

2 

1841  37 

3 

25 

Ap 

31 

1842  68 

6 

Ju 

10 

1834  - 

6 

10 

Jan 

9 

1825  48 

8 

10 

Ju 

II 

1829  45 
1827  59 

II 
8 

22 

Feb    28 


842     — 

845     - 
828  in 55 


808 


10 


I     20 


820     55       5 


Ju 

24 

1800   I 

4   5 

Jan 

13 

1809   3 

—   12 

Tul 

5 

1 801  in  14 

Ap 

26 

1745   6 

Sep 

I 

1828  S2 

—   — 

Feb 

2 

1879 

Sep 

17 

1838  55 

—   16 

Aug 

5 

1834  60 

Ap 

28 

1818  43 

Sep 

3 

1840  in  68 

Sep 

19 

1797 

Jan 

22 

1 837  in  5 

lu 

7 

1 840 in  14 

Nov 

3 

1842  18 

I   4 

Ap 

29 

1827  72 

I   5 

Ju 

4 

1 8 19  49 

7 

Feb 

15 

1 825  in  36 

OF    GRACE    CHURCH 


375 


"      Henry  Myers  of  Jas  G  &  Sarah  E 

..Aug 

9  3 

825 

— 

10 

24 

"      Alsop 

Jul 

20    ] 

836 

I 

4 

"      Ellen  of  John  A.  &  Mary 

Jan 

2    ] 

827 

— 

10 

— 

"      Ellen 

May 

lO    ] 

842  in  1 1 

"      Frederick     " 

Sep 

lO    ] 

828 

— 

8 

— 

"      Frederick  Gore  of  Rufus  &  Mary  Ap 

3  ] 

829 

27 

2 

17 

"      Archibald  Gracie 

Aug 

I  ] 

[823 

2 

5 

II 

"      Gracie  of  Arch.  Gracie  &  Eliz.  D 

Jul 

21     ] 

846 

— 

4 

13 

John  Alsop  (Govr.) 

Jul 

7  1 

867 

"      Mary  Ray 

Aug 

7  ] 

873 

Kemps  Capt.  John 

Ju 

7 

[824 

Kemps  Eliza 

Aug 

25  ] 

822 

39 

Keteltas  Joanna  of  Ganet  &  Charity 

Au 

15  ] 

[831 

49 

4 

5 

Kissam  Daniel 

Ju 

3  ] 

[812 

1?^ 

Mary 

May 

8  ] 

[800 

55 

Lamberson  Eliza  W.  of  Cornelius 

Mar 

3 

[811 

19 

10 

2 

"           Sarah  wife  of  David 

De 

28  ] 

[775 

53 

3 

22 

Leonard  Mary  wife  of  Major  Thos 

Au 

17  ] 

[782 

Lanman  Sarah  w.  of  Wm.  &  dau.  of 

Benj.  &  Mary  Carpenter  Sep 

9  1 

832 

76 

10 

Leslie  Geo.  Willocks 

Ap 

24  ] 

7741043 

Mackrell  Sarah  wid  of  Wm. 

Dec 

12 

[841 

75 

3 

19 

"         James 

Nov 

29 

[840 

41 

I 

16 

"         Millicent  wife  of  James 

Feb 

7  ] 

[806 

69 

7 

6 

"         Leticia  wife  of  James 

Jan 

18 

[817 

55 

I 

17 

Messenger  Margaret  wife  of  Samuel  L 

May 

7 

1830 

29 

8 

13 

Ann  Roe  of  Tom  &  Margaret  Au 

7 

[830 

— 

10 

3 

Morrel  James 

May 

6 

[813 

65 

I 

I 

"       Sarah 

Aug 

20 

1810 

61 

— 

II 

Miller  Sarah  wife  of  Capt.  Moses 

Mar 

12 

[809 

22 

2 

17 

Mills  Nath'l  Jr. 

Mar 

27 

1811 

53 

8 

17 

"      Caleb 

Sep 

10 

1813 

54 

II 

21 

"      Nath'l 

Au 

30 

1779 

65 

9 

16 

"      Catherine 

Aug 

13 

1779 

60 

10 

— 

Martin  James 

Nov 

31 

1831 

Mills  John  Keeling  of  John  &  Sarah 

Ann 

Feb 

14 

[838 

3 

— 

27 

Mottley  John 

Ap 

10 

1843 

32 

6 

10 

Napier  Cath.  of  Andrew  &  Cath. 

May 

9 

1819 

3 

I 

"      Ann 

Oct 

15 

1812 

— 

9 

— ' 

376 


ORIGIN    AND    HISTORY 


Napier  Andrew 

Nostrand  Timothy 

Dec 

21 

[83iin65 

Nostrand  Cath.  Lett 

"         Gitty  Ann  dau.  of  Tim 

Jan 

8 

[83iin24 

John  S. 

Feb 

6  ] 

836  in  40 

Ogden  Dr.  Jacob  Jr 

Ap 

4 

[802 

"       Mary  Reade  Depeyster  w.  of 

Dr.  Jacob  Sep 

20    ] 

790 

25 

"       Dr.  Jacob 

Sep 

3 

[780 

59 

"       Elizabeth  Bradford 

"       Elizabeth 

Sep 

7 

1749 

14 

Oldfield  Jos 

Aug 

22 

[765  in  62 

"         Mirian 

May 

8 

[825 

88 

3 

8 

"         Joseph 

Feb 

26 

[812 

75 

6 

Pinckney  CiccH  &  JuHet  of  Thos  & 

Caroline 

Nov 

20 

1836 

5 

1 1 

17 

"         Susan  OpheHa 

Mar 

15 

1834 

I 

3 

5 

"         Amantha  CaroHne 

Au 

6 

[827 

— 

5 

13 

Rowland  John  S. 

Jan 

20  1 

840 

25 

9 

15 

"          Cors.  Duyea  of  John  S.  & 

Sarah  Ann 

Jan 

21 

1840 

— 

2 

24 

Benj.  S. 

Sfep 

3  1 

838 

50 

6 

21 

Chas  of  Benj  S  &  Ann  J. 

May 

7 

[841 

7 

5 

Rapelye  Chas. 

Mar 

21 

1834 

42 

Deborah 

July 

19 

[836  in  43 

Roe  Jos 

Oct 

6 

1829 

74 

2 

28 

"     Ann  Lawrence 

Roe  Gilbert 

Au 

13 

[829 in  45 

"     Silas 

Sep 

20  ] 

831  in  42 

"     Sarah  wife  of  Silas 

May 

7  1 

[829 in  36 

"     Lewis  of  Silas  &  Sarah 

Sep 

4 

1826 

I 

4 

"     Amanda       "               " 

Jul 

26  ] 

828 

— 

II 

. — 

"      Lafayette  of  Gilbert  &  Mary 

Sep 

13 

[825 

— 

I 

2 

"     Nathaniel 

May 

14 

1817 

34 

3 

"     Lawrence 

Feb. 

27  i< 

B14 

37 

6 

27 

"     Ann  of  Jos  &  Ann 

Au 

25 

1809 

16 

8 

Rowland  Benj. 

Jan 

4  1 

825 

76 

Phebc 

Feb 

6 

[841 

88 

6 

David 

De 

18 

1821 

61 

Ida 

Au 

8 

1824 

58 

OF    GRACE    CHURCH  377 


Rising  Emma  of  David  B.  &  Susan  L 

Mar 

2  1844 

— 

II 

24 

Smith  Jas  S. 

Mar 

26  1838  in 43 

"       George  of  John  &  Hannah  of 

St.  John  N.  B. 

Sep 

23  17951" 24 

John  C. 

"       Lucy  A 

"       Martha  Hoyt  of  John  C.  & 

Lucy  A 

Sep 

21   1841 

— 

3 

14 

"       Wessell  Sell  of  John  C.  & 

Lucy  A 

Jan 

13  1842 

3 

8 

— 

Sale  Ann  W.  Durand  of  Wm.  A 

Mar 

I   1842 

26 

7 

13 

Sealy  Emeline  wife  of  Robt. 

De 

10  1841 

29 

— 

28 

"      Joseph 

De 

17  1831 

82 

Simonson  Jeremiah 

Ju 

15  1835 

54 

9 

13 

Elizabeth 

Mar 

10  1826 

18 

8 

27 

''          Chas  Jeremiah  of  Jer.  & 

Cath. 

Sep 

20  1831 

— 

8 

27 

Peter  S.  of  Jer.  &  Eliz. 

Ju 

15  1829 

20 

7 

II 

Mary  W.  of  Thos  H. 

Feb 

21   1837 

19 

10 

9 

"          Rebecca  w.  of  Isaac 

Feb 

14  1832 

24 

6 

9 

"          Sarah  Maria  of  Tohn  V.  & 

Sarah  M. 

Feb 

5  1843 

2 

5 

28 

Skinner  Margaret 

Sep 

3  1803 

74 

5' 

5 

Shimmins  Margaret  w.  of  John 

July 

30  1839 

48 

8 

I 

Smiley  Wm.  H.  son  of  Maria 

Sep 

13  1846 

27 

2 

13 

Maria  dau  of  And.  Ten  Eyck 

Feb 

14  1845 

63 

Sayres  Isaac  son  of  Rev  G.  H.  &  E.  M. 

Sep 

22  1824 

I 

8 

"       John  Tillotson     " 

Feb 

14  1823 

2 

5 

Sutherland  Geo. 

Elizabeth 

Dec 

31   1801 

Z7 

(Carpenter) 

"           John  of  Geo  &  Eliz 

Aug 

22  1790 

4 

Jennet 

Sep 

10  1790 

6 

Maria 

Feb 

28  1793 

6 

Sackett  Thomas  Ogden  of 

Aug  &  Minerva 

Aug 

13  181 1 

I 

6 

Sackett  Samuel 

Sept 

29  1780 

52 

2 

3 

Sackett  Samuel  Jr.  Mar     7  1822     57 

Sackett  Mary  Ap     22  1784  in 43 

Sackett  Elizabeth 


378 


ORIGIN    AND    HISTORY 


Kissam 
Sackett  Alillicent  w.  of  Jos 
Sproull  John  Thos 
Sproull  Jeremiah  of  John  &   Eliz. 

Jas  Jeremiah 
Skidmore  Susanna 
Tredwell 
"  ^       Eliz  Allen 

John 
"         Samuel 
"         Abig:ail  Whitehead 

Abigail  Ann  of  Willett  &  Eliz 
Troup    John 
"       Sarah  C. 

Christopher  of  John  &  Sarah 
Thatford  Jane  wife  of  \Vm. 
"  John 

\\^m. 
"         Mary  wife  of  Wm. 

Mary  of  Mary  &  Wm. 
"         Joseph 
"         Cath  wife  of  Jos. 
Townscnd  Thos  S. 
Thurston  Abby  wid.  of  Robt. 

"         Eliza  Ann 
Uitendale  Paulus  IMoncyr 
Baron  of  Brettone  of  St.  Croix 
\'an  Nostrand  Mary  L.  of  John  &  Mary 
Nicholas    L.     " 
John 
"  Mary  Ludluni 

Van  Brunt  Margaret  w.  of  John 
"  Rutgert 

[ost. 
Eliz 
John 
"  Jos  of  George  &  Jane. 

Eliz. 

Sarah  Levison  of  Tunis  & 
Sally  Maria 


Ju 

4 

i8i6in54 

Jul 

4 

1772  in62 

Mar 

20 

1 847  in  47 

I 

5 

24 

Eeb 

2 

1804 

26 

— 

13 

Dec 

31 

1859 

81 

9 

II 

Nov 

26 

1863 

Ecb 

26 

1826 

87 

Dc 

II 

1813 

2 

6 

17 

July 

8 

1817 

70 

Mar 

8 

1843 

71 

Oct 

12 

1826 

25 

5 

13 

Jan 

27 

1826 

26 

Ap 

30 

1833  in  73 

Sep 

30 

1776 

54 

De 

29 

1 800  in  76 

Nov 

12 

1778 

21 

Nov 

10 

1827 

58 

2 

20 

Feb 

4 

1810 

39 

8 

Jan 

II 

1834 

62 

3 

28 

May 

8 

i844in7i 

May 

24 

i83oin28 

Mar 

27 

1796 

43 

Tan 

^7 

1838 

6 

4 

4 

Ap 

10 

1836 

17 

2 

Oct 

15 

1832 

41 

6 

Feb 

9 

1828 

62 

7 

28 

Mar 

1 1 

1789 

24 

Feb 

8 

1814 

82 

10 

28 

Jan 

3 

1780 

39 

bee 

18 

1826 

69 

Mar 

13 

1837 

2 

— 

4 

Nov 

13 

1827 

— 

II 

16 

Oct     24  1829 


8    — 


OF    GRACE    CHURCH  379 

Van  Nostrand  Aaron  Jan    22  i822in84 

Sarah  Aug  23  1807     75       9 

"  Jos  son  of  A.  &  Sarah      Ap     30  1792 

John  A.  De     28  1828 in63 

Rachel  De      26  1846     79       i     10 

"  Thomas  s.  of  A.  &  Sarah  Sep      5  1795 

William 
Martha 
Elizabeth  of  Wm.  & 

Martha  Aug   19  i832in2i 
"  Chas.  Edward  "         Feb    17  1832       3 

Van  Nostrand  Ann  of  Wm.  &  Martha     Nov  29  i834ini6 
Van  Renssalaer  CuUen  of  John  C.  & 

Cornelia  Ap      12  1844       i        i      12 
Van  Cortland  Sarah  Ogden  of  Philip 

&  Cath.  Ap      18  1771     —    —    — 
Richard  Willing  Mar   16  1768     —    —    — 

Vanderbilt  Jeremiah  May     i   1807     35       6     20 

Valentine  Elihu  Baldwin  of  Sam  & 

Mary  Ap      16  1845       7       6     21 
"         Mary  w.  of  Jeremiah  Oct    14    1820     56       4       7 

Sarah  of  Oba  &  Phebe  May  17  1838     12     —     20 

Susan  Ann  of  Oba.  &  Ruth     Feb      8  1821       i       8       i 
Mary  of  Thos  &  Sarah  Ap     27  182 1       i       2     27 

Mary  "  "  July    17  1825     —      2       6 

Jeremiah       ''  "  Aug  26  1834       i       8 

Oba.  May  28  1842     54       7 

Valentine  Ruth  of  Oba.  Mar  26  1823     31 

Wm  Kissani  of  Oba.  &  Phebe  Feb    11   1837       3       6 
John  H  Mar   11   1843     43 

Martha  Oct     18  1835     30 

"         Valentine  Elizabeth,  of 

John  H.  &  Martha  H.  Dec    29  1833     —       3 
Welling  John  B.  of  Thos  &  Susana         Feb      7  1812     35 
Thos  July     6  181 1     65 

Susana  widow  Mar  20  1813     64 

Charles  Au      15   1 821  in  84 

Helen  Sep    14  1787  in  54 

Ennis 
Anne  Ap       9  1772  in  25 


380  ORIGIN    AND    HISTORY 


Welling,  Samuel 

Ag 

3 

1823 

66 

8 

Elizabeth 

Ap 

29 

1823 

65 

2 

Mary 

Mar 

21 

1843 

64 

I 

9 

"         Charles  (oldest  stone  in  the 

yard) 

1736 

Eliz.  Ann  V.  Brunt  dau.  of 

John  &  Jane 

Oct 

8 

1811 

0 

10 

21 

"         Elizabeth  w.  of  Chas 

Jan 

3 

1841 

63 

"         Edward  of  Jas  &  Eliz. 

Mar 

II 

1833 

— 

— 

8 

"         Benj  Tanner 

Sep 

4 

1830 

39 

9 

15 

Hannah 

Oct 

12 

1836 

43 

II 

Wood  Capt  Wm. 

Jan 

30 

1796 

44 

7 

Warne  Wm. 

Sep 

10 

1798 

52 

Aletta 

Oct 

13 

1795 

52 

10 

"       Wm.  son  of  Wm.  &  Aletta 

Oct 

I 

1797 

21 

I 

15 

Waters  James 

Sep 

2 

1803 

36 

Ward  Phebe  of  Col.  Sam.  &  Phebe 

Ap 

22 

1825  in  34 

Willett  Cath.  of  Edw.  &  Aletta 

Au 

17 

1746 

12 

"       Elbert 

Au 

19 

1738  ini4 

"       Jonah 

May 

25 

1749 

21 

"       Edward 

Dec 

8 

1794 

93 

"       Aletta 

Oct 

3 

1780 

76 

W'hitehead  Daniel  Capt. 

Jan 

14 

1792 

41 

Cath.  Willett 

Ap 

4 

1800 

45 

Williamson  John 

June 

3 

1815 

81 

5 

3 

Williamson  Adriana  Suydam 

Sep 

21 

1828 

84 

II 

White  Mary  w  of  Robert  of  Ireland 

Oct 

7 

i8i3in46 

Wilkes  Harriet  w  of  George  &  Dau.  of 

Jas.  G.  King 

Ju 

7 

1838 

21 

Finished  copying  Aug.  18,  1885.  3  P.  M. 

H.  O.,  Jr. 


X 
PEWHOLDERS  AND  COMMUNICANTS 


OF    GRACE    CHURCH  383 


Pewholders  in  Grace  Church,  Dec.  1,  1909. 


Stewart,  Charles  J.,  2  sittings. 
Burtis,  Mrs.  Caroline  W.,  1  sitting. 
Jackson,  Miss  Isabel  H.,  1  sitting. 
Creed,  Miss  C.  L.,  1  sitting. 
Hicks,  Mrs.  Helen  L.,  whole  pew. 
Meynen,  George  K.,  whole  pew. 
Tator,  Mrs.  Sarah,  half  pew. 
Brenton,  B.  J.,  whole  pew. 
Blondel,  C,  whole  pew. 
Hicks,  Charles,  half  pew. 
Smelt,  Miss  Louisa,  half  pew. 
Oborne,  Ernest  A.,  whole  pew. 
Schoonmaker,  Geo.,  whole  pew. 
Baker,  W.  C,  whole  pew. 
Purchase,  R.,  1  sitting. 
Jarvis,  Mrs.  William,  3  sittings. 
Hagner,  Misses,  half  pew. 
Lockwood,  C.  A.,  half  pew. 
Waters,  Misses  M.  and  E.,  2  sittings. 
Robinson,  Mrs.  W.  S.,  whole  pew. 
French,  James  B.,  whole  pew. 
Aymar,  Miss  C.  O.,  whole  pew. 
Cogswell,  Wm.  S.,  whole  pew. 
Crane,  Alden  S.,  whole  pew. 
Stocking,  Mrs.  S.  S.,  whole  pew. 
Betts,  Mrs.  E.  H.,  whole  pew. 
James,  Mrs.  Julia  F.,  2  sittings. 
Hassler,  Miss  Harriet  E.,  1  sitting. 
Denton,  John  S.,  whole  pew. 


384  ORIGIN    AND    HISTORY 

Belden,  Mrs.  C.  A.,  half  pew. 
Sayres,  G.  B.,  whole  pew. 
Meynen,  P.  K.,  half  pew. 
Grossman,  F.  G.,  half  pew. 
Rapelye,  M.,  2  sittings. 
Napier,  C.  C,  whole  pew. 
Van  Allen,  Mrs.  H.  A.,  half  pew. 
Payne,  A.  T.,  whole  pew. 
Abbott,  F.  E.,  M.  D.,  whole  pew. 
Pell,  W.  H.,  1  sitting. 
Hoffman,  Charles,  1  sitting. 
Horan,  Mrs.  S.,  1  sitting. 
Simonson,  Smith  M.,  whole  pew. 
Cook,  Mrs.  Jennie,  1  sitting. 
Blanchard,  Mrs.  K.  P.,  half  pew. 
Lothian,  James,  half  pew. 
Damon,  G.  W.,  whole  pew. 
Smith,  Mrs.  M.  F.,  whole  pew. 
Napier,  Miss  S.,  1  sitting. 
Bedell,  Miss  Ella,  1  sitting. 
Sullivan,  Miss  C,  1  sitting. 
Pette,  M.,  1  sitting. 
Waters,  Misses,  half  pew. 

NAMES  OF  COMMUNICANTS  IN  GRACE  CH 
Jamaica  Sept.   1817  by  Rev.  G.  H.  Sayres 

Daniel  Kissam 
Mrs  Do  Kissam 
Jeremiah  Valentine 
Mrs  —  Valentine 
Ruth  Valentine 
John  Hoog-land 
Mrs  Hoogland 
John  Skidmore 


OF    GRACE    CHURCH  385 

Mrs  Skidmore 
Wynant  Van  Zandt 
Mrs  Van  Zandt 
Sarah    Hewlett 
Mrs  Sarah  Troup 
Mrs   Mary   Codwise 
Jeremiah  Simison 
Mrs   Simison 
Miss    Mary   Welling 

Eliza  Welling" 

Martha  Welling 
Miss  Polhemus 
Abiatha  Rhodes 
Mrs  Rhodes 
Miss  Martha  Hewlett 
Miss  Hannah  Hewlett 
Mrs  Rowland 
Timothy  Nostrand 
Mrs  Nostrand 
Miss  Eliza  Brown 
Lewis  E.  A  Eigenbrodt 
Mrs  Vandervoort 
Lawrence   Roe 
Mrs  Roe 
Mrs  Scriba 
Hannah  Wickam 
Aaron  Van  Nostrand 
John  Van  Nostrand 
Catherine  Smith 
Elizabeth  Brewer 
Oliver  Powell 
Eliza  Troup 
Mrs  Rufus  King 
Miss  Susan  Hicks 
Wm  Sale 
Mrs  Sale 
Eliza  M.  Sayres 
Robert  Grant 
Rebecca  Aspinwall 
Sarah  Roe 


386  ORIGIN    AND    HISTORY 

Colored  People 

Thomas  Bogfart 
James  Hitchcock 
Old  Sarah 
Silva  Troup 
Fanny 
Gustav   Ceasar 


Mary  Ann  Valentine 

Mrs  James  Valentine 

Mary  Ann  Simison 

Mr  Smith 

(brother  of  Fosters'  Meadow) 

Mrs  Hays  Bowie 

Miss  Brasher 

Hamilton  Codwise 

Mrs.   Sealy 

Mrs  Harvey 

Mrs  Theobauld 

Mrs  Halworth 

Miss  Lake,  at  Mr  Denton's 

Mrs  Eigenbrodt 

Daniel  Cornwell 

Mrs    Cornwell 

Miss  Blackwell 

Mrs  Bowie 

Mrs  Heyler 

Mrs  Keer 

Miss   Brasher 

Mrs  Thatford 

Mrs  King 

James  Smith 

Mrs   James    Smith 

Evert  Wenman 

Mrs  Wenman 

Mr   Kingsbury 

Mrs  Kingsbury 

Mrs  Brasher 

Mrs  Powell 

Mrs   Sinclair 

Anna  Codwise 


OF    GRACE    CHURCH  387 

Mrs  A  Dockerty 

Mrs  Is.  Stewart 

Mrs  Clements 

Mr  P.  C.  Pinckney 

Mrs  Pinckney 

Wm  Joel 

Miss  Hetty  Hicks 

Wm  Duncan 

Mrs  Hewlett  Creed 

Mr  Clements 

Wm  Beckly 

Judah  Smith  colourd 

Mrs   Widow    Skidmore 

George  Johnson 

Mrs  McKee 

Johnathan   Rowland 

Mrs   Rowland 

Elizabeth  Ann  Clowes 

Hiram  A  Frederick 

Valentine   Clowes 

John  Van  Nostrand 

(carpenter) 
Mrs  John  Van  Nostrand 
Wm  Swayzee 
Phebe  M.  Van  Nostrand 
Catherine  Van  Nostrand 

(colord)  sis  of  I  Duarye 
Margarett  Van  Nostrand 

(colored) 
Dinah  Van  Nostrand   (cold) 
Wm   Halligan 
Ellen  Van  Nostrand  (cold) 
Joseph    Sealy   Nov.    1827 
Mrs  Rodman  Feb.  1828 
Miss  Nostrand,  daughter  of 

J.  Nostrand,  Dec.  25,  1828 
Helen  Nostrand   (cold)       Do 
Benjamin   Clement  Do 

Mrs.  Obh  Valentine  1829 
Mrs  Jane  Rowland  April  1829 


388  ORIGIN    AND    HISTORY 

Capt.  Joseph  Roe  Sept.  1829 

Mrs   Roe 

Mrs  Vandebugh  July  1829 
James  Denton,  March  1830 

NAMES  OF  COMMUNICANTS  AS  REPORTED  FROM 

1 82 1 -1 870. 

(N.  B.     The  marks  on  the  original  of  "decease"  and  ''removed' 
often  made  with  pencil  are  omitted. — H.  O.  L.) 

Philip   Noland 

Mrs  Miriam  Oldfield 

Sarah  Wickham 

Sarah  Welling 

Ellen  Roe 

Jane  Codwise 

Nancy  Gracie 

Miss  Kettletas 

Elviann    Cunningham 

Caroline  Roe 

Mary  Frederick 

Miss  Ann  Ward 

Phebe  Ward 

Mrs  Ross 

Mrs  London 

Mrs  Tibbits  Theobauld 

Mrs  Deyson 

Miss  Deyson 

Eliza  Dawson 

Alctta  Vandevoort 

Mrs  McNeill 

Sarah  Lepner 

Ann  Thatford 

Maria  Gordon 

Mrs  Bacon 

Mrs  Titus 

Mrs  Dawson 

James  Valentine 

Miss  Rowland 

Miss  Lyde 

Sarah  Wickham 


OF    GRACE    CHURCH  389 

Mary   Wickham 
Mrs  Strickland 
Mrs  Marg-aret  Kissam 
Mrs  Ann  Kissam 
Lawrence  Denton 
Reported  1821/70 
Rebecca  Denton 

Miss  Denton 

Nancy  Welling- 

Mrs  Widow   Hicks 

Mrs   Obedh   Valentine 

Miss   Maria  Hicks 

Mrs  Jackson 

Miss  Valentine 

Elizabeth  Valentine 

Mrs  Waters 

Mr  Smith,  of  Fosters  Meadow 

Mrs  Smith  wife 

Mrs  Smith  mother 

Susan    Hoagland 

Obh   Valentine 

Mrs  Welling 

Communicarits  of  Grace  Church,  Dec.  1,  1909. 

Allen,  Miss  Ella 
Allen,  Mrs.  Gertrude 
Allen,  Miss. 

Anderson,  Miss  Jeanette  S. 
Andreu,  Mr.  Frank  B. 
Andreu,  Mrs.  Isabel  A. 
Andreu,  Miss  Helen. 
Andreu,  Miss  Florence  C. 
Andreu,  Miss  Isabelle  W. 
Arnold,  Mrs.  Emily  . 
Arnold,  Miss  Mabelle  R. 
Arnold,  Miss  Emilv  A. 
Arnold,  Mr.  Wilford  C. 
Archer,  Mrs.  Jennie  W. 
Apgar,  Arthur. 
Apgar,  Mr.  Frederick  T. 


390  ORIGIN    AND    HISTORY 

Apgar,  Mrs.  Frederick  T. 
Aymar,  Miss  Catherine  O. 
Aymar,  Mr.  Samuel  E. 
Aymar,  Mrs.  Samuel  E. 
Aymar,  Mr.  Harry  C. 
Baker,  Mr.  B.  W.' 
Baker,  Mrs.  B.  W. 
Baker,  Mrs.  Eleanor. 
Baker,  Mrs.  Helen  Hill. 
Baker,  Miss  Edna  Napier. 
Baker,  Mr.  Elmer. 
Baker,  Mr.  Frederick  Dunton. 
Baker,  Miss  Louise  Woods. 
Baldwin,  Mr.  Clarence  M. 
Ballard,  Mrs.  Julia  Deming. 
Bassett,  Miss  Eloise  P. 
Bassett,  Mr.  Philip  J.  H. 
Bassett,  Mrs.  Caroline  A. 
Bassett,  Miss  Christiana. 
Bassett,  Miss  Grace. 
Bateman,  Mrs.  Florence  C. 
Batley,  Mr.  George. 
Batley,  Miss  Adelaide. 
Beecher,  Mrs.  Anna. 
Beach,  Miss  Myrtle  M. 
Beardsley,  MFss  Ruth  E. 
Bedell,  Miss  Ella  A. 
Belden,  Mrs.  Harriet  O. 
Belden,  Charles  A.,  M.  D. 
Belden,  Mrs.  Lillian. 
Belden,  Miss  Gladys  E. 
Bennett,  Mr.  Wesley  H. 
Bennett,  Miss  Eugenia. 
Bennett,  Mrs.  Clara. 
Bennett,  Miss  Hattie  B. 
Bennett,  Marietta. 
Bennett,  Mr.  (ieorge. 
Bennett,  Mrs.  J.  R. 
Bennett,  Mrs.  Josephine. 
Bennett,  Miss  Annie. 


OF    GRACE    CHURCH  391 

Bennett,  Miss  Edna. 
Bennett,  Mr.  James. 
Bennett,  Miss  Estelle. 
Bessemer,  Mrs.  J.  P. 
Betts,  Mrs.  Emily  H. 
Birchnell,  Mr.  Richard. 
Birchnell,  Mrs.  Caroline. 
Birchnell,  Mr.  Joseph  B. 
Birchnell,  Miss  Constance  M. 
Birchnell,  Mr.  Richard  T. 
Birchnell,  Miss  Dorothy. 
Birchnell,  Miss  Lizzie  May. 
Birchnell,  Mr.  James  Gates. 
Bissell,  Mrs.  Emma  L. 
Bissell,  Jr.,  Mr.  Charles  H. 
Bisbee,  Mrs.  Hattie  L. 
Bisbee,  Miss  Mabel  W. 
Bisbee.  Miss  Helen. 
Bisbee,  Mr.  Herbert  F. 
Bisbee,  Mr.  Robert  A. 
Blanchard,  Mrs.  Kate  A. 
Bird,  Mr.  John. 
Bird,  Mrs.  John. 
Bird,  Mr.  Louis. 
Bird,  Miss  Mary  J. 
Blondell,  Mr.  Charles. 
Blondell,  Mrs.  Alice  R. 
Blondell,  Mr.  Wyman. 
Booth,  Miss  Agnes. 
Boyd,  Miss  Hester  W. 
Brackett,  Mrs.  Caroline  T.  W. 
Brackett,  Mr.  Anthony. 
Brackett,  Mr.  Robert  White. 
Bradlee,  Miss  M. 
Brown,  Mr.  J.  M. 
Brown,  Miss  Alma  M.  J. 
Brenton,  Benjamin  J. 
Brenton,  Mrs.  Orvetta  H. 
Buckbee,  Lewis  C. 
Buckbee,  Mrs.  Emma  S, 


392  ORIGIN    AND    HISTORY 

Buck,  Miss  Helen  D. 
Buck,  Miss  Edith  S. 
lUirtis,  Mrs.  Caroline  W. 
Hurtis,  Mrs. 
Burtis,  Miss  Jean  F. 
Burtis,  Mrs.  Helen  E. 
Carman,  Mr.  Garry. 
Carman,  Mrs.  Laura. 
Carmichael,  Mrs.  Cornelia  E. 
Charles,  Mr.  James  M. 
Charles,  Mrs.  James  M. 
Chickering,  Mrs.  Edwin. 
Christopher,  Miss  Ethel  Mav. 
Church,  Mrs.  H.  S. 
Clearwater,  Mrs.  M. 
Clearwater,  Miss  Ruth. 
Clements,  Mrs. 
Clements,  Mr.  Lance. 
Clifton,  Mr.  Albert  E. 
Cogswell,  Air.  William  S. 
Cogswell,  Mrs.  Henrietta. 
Cogswell,  Miss  H.  Virginia. 
Cogswell,  Miss  Serena  S. 
Cogswell,  Miss  Pauline  G. 
Cogswell,  Mr.  Sterling  C. 
Cogswell,  Mr.  George  E. 
Cogswell,  Mrs.  Bertha  H. 
Comellas,  ]\Irs.  Martha  G. 
Concilius,  Miss  Josephine. 
Concilius,  Miss  Irene. 
Conkling,  Mr.  Elbert  L. 
Conkling,  Mr.  Edward  L. 
Conway,  Miss  Alice  Amelia. 
Cook,  Mrs.  Jenny. 
Cooke,  Mrs.  George  K. 
Corser,  Mr.  Louis  D. 
Corser,  Mrs.  M.  M. 
Crane,  Mr.  Alden  S. 
Crane,  Mrs.  Cornelia  T. 
Crawford,  Mrs.  Mary  Selma. 


OF    GRACE    CHURCH  393 

Creed,  William. 
Creed,  Miss  Charlotte. 
Croucher,  Daniel  M. 
Crossman,  Mrs.  Rosa  M. 
Crossman,  Miss  Helen  L. 
Crossman,  Miss  Elma  G. 
Crossman,  Miss  Julia  M. 
Crowley,  Miss  Isabel. 
Curtis,  Mrs. 

Damon,  Mrs.  Emma  Louise. 
Damon,  Miss  Lulu  Tremaine. 
Damon,  Mrs.  Jennie. 
Deam,  Mr.  Frank  E. 
Deam,  Mrs.  Annie  R. 
Denton,  Mr.  James, 
Denton,  Mr.  John  S. 
Denton,  Mrs.  Ada  C. 
Denton,  Mr.  Frank  D. 
Detheridge,  Miss  Florence  H. 
Dewey,  Miss  Ella  C. 
DeWitte,  Michael  E. 
Donahue,  Mrs. 
Donahue,  Mr.  Louis. 
Donahue,  Mr.  William  J. 
Donahue,  Miss  Edna  L. 
Easton,  Mr.  Frank  L. 
Eger,  Mrs. 

Eger,  Miss  Lucille  E. 
Eger,  Miss  Helen. 
Epler,  Miss  Alice. 
Everett,  Mrs.  Josie  B. 
Everett,  Mrs.  William. 
Fitzhugh,  Mr.  Arthur. 
Fitzhugh,  Mrs.  Carolyn. 
Fitzhugh,  Mr.  Edward. 
J^'itziiugh,  Roger  Sherman. 
Fosdick,  Mrs.  John  S. 
French,  Mr.  James  B. 
French,  Mrs.  Flora  Williams. 
Gale,  Miss  E.  Gertrude. 


394  ORIGIN    AND    HISTORY 

Gaskall,  Mrs.  Elizabeth. 
Colder,  Miss  Sarah  Elizabeth. 
Coodman.  Mrs.  Jenny  \'. 
Gildersleeve,  Miss  Lillian  E. 
Griffith.  Mr.  Frank  J. 
Griffith,  Mrs.  Henrietta. 
Hagner,  ^liss  Charlotte  A. 
Hagner,  Miss  Phebe. 
Haire,  Mrs.  L.  De  Silroy. 
Haire,  Mr.  Maxwell  W. 
Haire,  Mr.  Cohardt  W. 
Haire,  Mr.  Douglas. 
Hall,  Mrs.  John. 
Hallock,  MissMableC. 
Hanna,  Mr.  Frederick. 
Hasler,  Miss  Harriet  E. 
Hart,  Miss  Jennie  C. 
TJaynes,  Mrs.  Sarah  A. 
Haynes,  ]\Iiss  Jessie  E. 
Hennes,  Mr.  Joseph. 
Hellers,  Mr.  George  N. 
Hellers,  Mr.  Charles  P. 
Hellers,  Mr.  John  Pear. 
Hellers,  Mr.  Leon  Matthews. 
Herr,  Miss  Margaret  F. 
Hewlett,  Miss  Mary. 
Hexamer.  Mr.  Frederick  G. 
Hexamer,  Mrs.  Frederick  G. 
Hexamer,  Mr.  Harold  T. 
Hexamer,  Mr.  Edwin  Graham 
Hicks,  Mrs.  Helen  L. 
Hicks,  Mrs.  Minnie  Thayer. 
Higgins,  Mr.  John. 
Higgins,  Mrs.  Florence  C. 
Hooper,  Mrs.  Beekman. 
Hooper,  Miss  Hazel  C. 
Holt,  Mr.  Douglas. 
TTubbell.  Miss  Eleanor. 
Huschcr,  Mrs.  E. 
Huscher,  Mr.  Alexander. 


OF    GRACE    CHURCH  395 

Huscher,  Mr.  Robert  C. 
Huscher,  Miss  Augusta  D. 
Horan,  Mr.  Samuel  J. 
Horan,  Mrs.  Jane  Harriette. 
Hoffman,  Mrs.  Catharine. 
Hoffman,  Miss  Hilda. 
Hopkins,  Mr.  Frank  E. 
Hopkins,  Mrs.  Frank. 
Hopkins,  Miss  Marion. 
Hunt,  Mrs.  Annie  S. 
Humphrey,  Mrs.  O.  D. 
Inman,  Mrs.  Harriett  A. 
Inman,  Miss  Eva  J. 
Jackson,  Miss  Isabel  H. 
Jackson,  Miss  Ethalinda. 
James,  Mrs.  Laura. 
James,  Mr.  Godfrey  M. 
Jameson,  Mr.  Charles. 
Jameson,  Mrs.  Louisa. 
Jarvis,  Mr.  William. 
Jarvis,  Mrs. 
Jarvis,  Miss  Irma. 
Jones,  Mrs.  George  K. 
Jones,  Mrs.  Richard  O. 
Jones,  Mr.  Isaac  L. 
Kamerer,  Mrs.   E. 
Kelley,  Miss  Ella  May. 
Kendall,  Mrs.  Harriett  L. 
King,  Gladys. 
Kirby,  Miss  Constance  M. 
Klaiber,  Mr.  Christian. 
Kurth,  Mrs.  Margaret. 
Ladd,  Rev.  Horatio  Oliver. 
Ladd,  Mrs.  Harriet  V.  A. 
Ladd,  Miss  J.  Eirene. 
Lee,  Mrs.  Henry  W. 
Lawrence,  James  Henry. 
Liebler,  Mrs. 
Liebler,  Mr.  Irving  B. 
Llewellyn,  Mr.  W.  D. 


396  ORIGIN    AND    HISTORY 

Llewellyn,  Airs. /Mary  \V. 
Lockvvood,  Mr.  Charles  A. 
Lockwood,  Mrs.  Ella  Baker, 
l^ockwood,  Mr.  Everett  A, 
Lockwood,  Mr.  Francis  G. 
Lodge,  Mr.  Augustus. 
Lyon,  Miss  Cornelia  E. 
Martin,  Mrs.  J. 
McFarland,  Miss  Christina. 
McFarland,  Mrs.  R.  L. 
McMahon,  Mrs.  R.  J. 
Megale,  Mrs.  Abram. 
Megale,  Miss  Loretta  \'iola. 
Megale.  Mr.  Abram. 
Meadows,  Mrs.  Thomas  H. 
Metzgar,  Mr.  Frederick. 
Metzgar,  Mrs.  Frederick. 
Metzgar,  Mr.  Frederick,  Jr. 
Metzgar,  Mr.  August. 
Metzgar,  Miss  Pauline. 
Metzgar,  Mr.  Paul  Albert. 
Metzgar,  Mr.  Arthur  Jacob. 
Meynen,  George  K.,  AL  D. 
Meynen,  Mrs.  Elizabeth  E. 
Meynen,  Mr.  Philip  K. 
Meynen.  Mrs.  Helen  G. 
Miller,  Miss  Josephine  \V. 
Miller,  Mrs.  Eliza. 
Mitchell,  Air.  James. 
Mitchell,  Airs.  James. 
Alitchell,  Aliss  Eva  J. 
Alitchell,  Air.  Abbott  Augustus. 
Alitchell,  Air.  R.  Bladgcn. 
Alichel,  Airs.  Ella. 
Aloran,  Mr.  Harry  S. 
AToran,  Airs. 
Moran,  Mrs.  Edna. 
Alorris,  Airs.  George. 
Alorris,  Aliss  Anna  Alargaret. 
Alorris,  Air.  George  Wolcott. 


OF    GRACE    CHURCH  397 

Morton,  Mr.  Sherwin. 

Munson,  Mr.  John  A. 

Munson,  Mrs.  J.  A. 

Murray,  Mrs.  Margaret. 

Murray,  Miss  Caroline  A, 

Murray,  Mrs. 

Murray,  Miss  Grace  Irma. 

Napier,  Mrs.  Sarah  E. 

Napier,  Miss  Sarah  C. 

Napier,  Mr.  Charles  C. 

Napier,  Mrs.  Julia  C. 

Napier,  Miss  K.  B. 

Needham,  Mr.  Henry  I. 

Needham,  Miss  Eva. 

Newcomb,  Mr.  C.  Jerome. 
Newcomb,  Mrs.  Candee  M. 
Nisbett,  Miss  Amelia  E. 
Noble,  Daniel. 
Noble,  Mrs.  Annie. 
O'Brien,  Mrs.  Herbert  A. 
Oborne,  Mr.  Ernest  A. 
Oborne,  Miss  Aline  E. 
Oborne,  Mr.  Harry  Egbert, 
Oborne,  Miss  Bessie  B. 
Oborne,  Mr.  Wilbur  Aubrey. 
Otis,  Mr.  Roland  Litchfield. 
Otis,  Mrs.  Mary  Catharine. 
Painter,  Mr.  Charles  T. 
Painter,  Mrs.  Charles  T. 
Patrick,  Mrs.  Margaret. 
Payne,  Mr.  Alton  T. 
Payne,  Mrs.  Alice  S. 
Pell,  Miss  M.  E. 
Pennell,  Mr. 

Peterson,  Mrs.   Mary  Judson. 
Preston,  Mr.  George  W. 
Pett,  Miss. 
Pette,  Michael  A. 
Pomeroy,  Mr.  C.  St.  John. 
Pond,  Mrs.  Laura  G. 


398  ORIGIN    AND    HISTORY 

Price,  Mr.  Henry  E. 
Price,  Mrs.  H.  E. 
Purchase,  Mr.  Richard. 
Purchase,  Mrs,  C.  C. 
Purchase,  Mr.  Clarence. 
Rapelye,  Mrs.  Martin  W. 
Reese,  Mr.  Thomas  M. 
Reese,  Mrs.  Sophie  D. 
Ripp,  Mrs.  Annie  M. 
Rickmeyer,  Mrs.  Frederick  L. 
Roberts.  Mrs.  C.  M. 
Roland,  Mr.  Edwin  D. 
Roland,  Mrs.  Edwin  D. 
Rose,  Miss  F.  A. 
Ross,  Mrs.  Phenie  S. 
Roupe,  Miss. 
Rowan,  Mrs. 
Rowan,  Miss  Lady  S. 
Rog^ers,  Mr.  Franklin  E. 
Sandusky,  Mrs.  Lena. 
Sandusky,  Miss  Viola. 
Sayres,  Mr.  Gilbert  B. 
Seabury,  Miss  Elizabeth  E. 
Seabald,  Mr.  Henry. 
Schellenburger,  Miss. 
Schoonmacher,  Mr.  George  W. 
Schoonmacher,  Miss  Mary  C. 
Searles,  Mrs.  Mary. 
Smelt,  Miss  Louisa. 
Simonson,  Mr.  Smith  M. 
Simonson,  Mrs.  Adelaide. 
Simonson,  Miss  Aug-usta. 
Simonson,  Miss  Sadie  L. 
Simonson,  Miss  Edna. 
Smith.  Mrs.  William. 
Smith,  Mr.  Charles. 
Smith,  Mr.  William. 
Smith.  Mrs.  J.  H. 
Southard,  Miss  Mary  Lee. 
Stocking,  Mrs.  S.  S. 


OF    GRACE    CHURCH  399 

Stehlin,  Mrs.  Emma. 
Stehlin,  Miss  Gertrude. 
Stehlin,  Miss  ^largaret. 
Stone,  Miss. 
Stewart,  Mrs. 
Stoutenberg,  Mr.  Gilbert. 
Stoutenberg,  Mrs. 
Strerper,  Mrs.  Gertrude  M. 
Stuart,  Miss  A.  M. 
Sutphin,  Mrs.  H. 
Sutphin,  Miss  Caroline. 
Sutphin,  Miss  Marguerite. 
Sullivan,  Miss  Celestine. 
Tator,  Mr.  John  P. 
Tator,  Mrs.  J.  P. 
Taylor,  Mr.  Joseph  B. 
Taylor,  Mrs.  Mary  Ellen. 
Tatum,   Mary    E. 
Thornbury,  Mrs.  W.  T. 
Toy,  Miss  Maude. 
Tripple,  Miss  Laura. 
Unwin,  Mrs.  Wm. 
Valentine,   Mrs. 
Van  Allen,  Mrs.  Henry  A. 
Van    Vechten.    Mr.    Roger    A. 

Pry  or. 
Van  Wycke,  Mrs.  Elmira  Mills 
Viegele,  Mr.  William  K. 
Viegele,  Mr.  William  J. 
Viegele,  Miss  Josephine  J. 
Viegele,  Miss  Kate. 
Waters,  Miss  Mary  Agnes. 
Waters,   Miss   Elizabeth. 
Waters,   Miss   Inez   Catharine. 
Ward.  Miss  J.   Gertrude. 
Webber,  Mrs. 
Wiltsie,  Mrs.  Martin  B. 
Wiltsie,  Mr.  James   L. 
Wiltsie,  Mr.  Dudley. 
Wiltsie,  Miss  Alice  Ethel. 


400  ORIGIN    AND    HISTORY 

Wilkinson,  Mr.  A.  J. 
Wilkinson,  Mrs.  Maria. 
VVestervelt,  Miss  Josephine  A. 
Wheeler,  Mr.  F.  W. 
Wheeler,  Mrs.  Frances  C. 
Wheeler,  Miss  Bessie. 
Wheeler,   Marjorie   S. 
DeWitte,  Mr.  Michael  F. 
Woolard,  Miss  Harriet  J. 
White,  Mr.  Barclay. 
White.     Mr.     Theodore     Ran- 

dolj)h. 
White.  Mrs.  Jennie  G. 
Williams,  Mrs.  Annie  Gertrude 
Wilson,  Miss  Sue. 
Webster,  Miss  Martha  E. 


INDEX 


See  also  alphebetical  list  of  communicants  on  pages  389  to  400 
not  included  in  this  Index. 


INDEX 


Abbott,  F.  E.,  M.  D.,  384. 
Aber,  Jno.,  282. 
Abrahams,  Deborah,  317. 
Abrams,  Charles  and  Phebe  E., 

333- 
Abril,     Hannah,     Richard     and 

Sarah,  270. 
Adaline,  EHza,  336. 
Adams,   Mary,  293. 
Adams,  John,  121. 
Alburtus,  James,  284. 
Alden,  Elizabeth,  89,  253. 
Alden,  John,  89. 
Alexander,  James,  336. 
Allen,  Andrew,  318. 
Allen,  Clarissa,  305,  341. 
Allen,  Elena,  305,  341. 
Allen,    Hester    and    Zachariah, 

279. 
Allen,  James,  305,  341. 
Allen,  Maria,  321. 
Allen,  Priscilla,  282. 
Allen.  Wm.,  335. 
Alleman,   M.,   136. 
Alonzo,  Herbert,  336. 
Alsop,  Abigail,  298,  301. 
Alsop,  Deborah,  278. 
Alsop,  Elizabeth,  283,  301,  324. 
Alsop,  Thomas,  298,  339. 
Alsop,  Richard,  298'. 
Altar  Guild,  202,  204,  207,  222, 

250. 
Amberman,  Miss,  100. 
Anderson,  Aletta,  296,  338. 
Anderson,  Clara,  296,  338. 
Anderson,   Esther,   296,   338. 
Anderson,  Isaac,  296,  338. 
Anderson,  Jeremiah,  296,  338. 
Anderson,  John,  296,  338. 


Anderson,  Joseph,  296,  338. 
Anderson,       Marj,       Elizabeth, 

Jonathan  and  William,  296. 
Andrson,  Mr.,   170. 
Anderson,  Sarah,  296,  338. 
Andreu,  F.  D.,  1S3. 
Andreu,      Miss      Florence     and 

Frances,  205. 
Andreu,    Mrs.    Frank    B.,    204, 

233,  244- 
Andros,  Major,  27,  29. 
Ann,  Thomas,  296. 
Anne,  Queen,  sy,  45. 
Archdeaconry  of  Queens,  244. 
Areson.  Hannah,  285. 
Armstrong,  James,  304. 
Arnold,  Mary,  280. 
Arnold,  Elizabeth,  270. 
Ashby,  James,  182. 
Aspinwall,  Elizabeth  Scott,  318. 
Aspinwall,  Gilbert,  327. 
Aspinwall,  John,  299,  341. 
Aspinwall,    Mary   and    William, 

299. 
Aspinwall,  Mr.,  94. 
Aspinwall,  Rebecca,  302,  385. 
Aspinwall,  Sarah,  302. 
Austin,  Mary  P.,  317. 
Austin,  Mary  Ann,  316. 
Austin,  Nathaniel,  364. 
Aymar,    Miss    C.    O.,    183,    211, 

383. 
Aymar,  Miss  Jenny,   143. 
Aymar,  Miss  Kate,  233,  244. 
Aymar,    Samuel    S.,    151,     193, 

195,  244. 
Bacon,  Mrs.,  388'. 
Badgely,   Phebe,   281. 
Bailey,  James  S.,  318. 


404 


ORIGIN  AND  HISTORY 


Baker,  Byron  \\'.,  2^"]. 
Baker.  Clarence  D.,  215. 
Baker.  Elizabeth,  299,  340.  , 
Baker.  Fred.,  234. 
Baker,   George,   299.  340. 
Baker,  Hannah,  299. 
Baker.  John  and  Mary,  340. 
Baker,  Miss  Louise,  214. 
Baker,  Miss  Edna  N.,  205. 
Baker,  Mrs.  \Vm.  C,  211,  233. 

244. 
Baker.  \V.  C,  383. 
Baldwin,  Rachel,  284. 
Ball,  Peter.  293. 
Ballard,  Mrs.  Wm.  J.,  210,  233. 
Banks,  Sarah.  371. 
Bannister.  Jno..  2'j'/,  285. 
Bannister,  Mary  and  Eliza,  2"]"]. 
Banyan,  George,  263. 
Barckley,   Anthony,   303. 
Barclay,  Mr.  Rev.,  88. 
Barden.  Eliza,  304. 
Bardin,  Edwin,  340,  357. 
Barker,    Abigail    E.,    Lydia    and 

Gilbert,  t.zI- 
Barker,  Charles  H..  334. 
Barkley.  Henry.  309. 
Barnard,  Ensign,  356. 
Barnet,  Susanna,  275. 
Barnet,  William,  275,  283. 
Barrol,  Clemence,  372. 
Barry,  Edmund  D..  115. 
Bartlctt.  Anna  Marsh.  319. 
Barton,  Abigail,  2']-}^.  274.  ■« 

Barton,  Jno.  and  Elizabeth.  271. 
Barton.  Joseph.  2"]}^.  274.  282. 
Barton.  Lewis.  274. 
Barton.  Mary  and  Jno..  273. 
Barton.     Rachel     and     Thomas. 

273- 
Bartow,  Basil  J.,  304. 
Bartow,  Elizabeth,  270,  271. 
Bartow,    Hannah,    Amy,    Sarah 

and  Frances,  271. 


Bartow,  Jno.,  270.  271. 

Bartow,  Mary,  270. 

Bartow,   Rev.   John,  38,   50,   }J , 

53,  231. 
Batten.  Sarah  Eliza,  310. 
Battersby,  James,  287. 
Bay,  Sarah,  293. 
Bayless,   Samuel  and  Benjamin. 

271. 
Bayley,  William,  291. 
Baylis,  Daniel,  362. 
Baylis,  Thomas,  363,  368. 
Badel,  Henry.  303. 
Beadel,  Joseph  Woodred,  309. 
Beard,  Margaret,  336. 
Beard,  Shirley,  215. 
Beaver  Pond,  84. 
Beckly,  William,  323,  387. 
Beckwith.   Charles,   319. 
Bedell,  George.  334. 
Bedell,  Miss  Ella,  244,  384. 
Bedford,    Catherine,    275,    270. 

287. 
Bedford.  Jno.,  275,  279.  284.  287. 
Bedford,    Mary,    275. 
Beech,  Rev.  Dr.,   no. 
Bcek-man,     Ann     Payne,     Sarah 

and    (ierald,    296. 
Beekman,  Col.,  71. 
Beeckman,  Garrett.  302. 
Begaw,  Isaac,  298,  299. 
Begaw,  John.  298,  339. 
Begaw,  Nelly,  299,  341. 
Begaw,  Susannah.  298.  299,  340. 
Behr.  Caroline.  ^^^J- 
Bell,  John.  ^57. 
Bell.  Mrs.  Adele.  182. 
Belden,    Mrs.    C.    A..    153.    212. 

211,  213.  214.  233,  384. 
Belden.  Rev.   Charles,   183,   184, 

221.   230. 

Belden.  Mrs..  160. 
Bellcrd.  Wm..  359.  365. 
Bennet.  Edward  T.,  215. 


OF  GRACE  CHURCH 


405 


Bennet,  Isaac,  318,  360. 
Bennet,  John   H.,   '^'ji. 
Bennett,  Isaac,  359. 
Bennett,  Ann,  317. 
Benton,  Mary,  338. 
Beresford,    Francis,    336. 
Berg,  Mr.,  221. 
Bergan,  Elizabeth.  Isaac,  Mary, 

Rebecca  and  Susanna,  307. 
Began,  Sarah,  301. 
Bergen,  Abraham,  362. 
Bergen,  Ann,  363. 
Bergen,  Derick,  353,  361. 
Bergen,  EHzabeth,  342. 
Bergen,  Jacob,  357,  362,  369. 
Berger,  John,  292,  355,  360. 
Bergen,  Luke,  354,  362,  366. 
Bergen,  Tunis,  354,  362. 
Berian,  Rebecca,  303. 
Beri^an,  Abraham,  303. 
Berkeley,  Bishop,  35. 
Bernard,     Augustus,     Johannes, 

Daniel  and  Elizabeth,  268. 
Bernhardi,  Mrs.  Feodor,  213. 
Berriam,     Abraham     and    Jane, 

292. 
Berrian,   Mar}-,  342. 
Berry,  Samuel  W.,  155. 
Berton,   Ann,   Mary   and   Peter, 

296. 
Bessemer.  Mr.,   152. 
Bessemer,  Mrs.,  154. 
Betts,  Agnes,  297,  339. 
Betts,  Ann,  291,  292,  294,  300. 
Betts  Family,   174. 
Betts,  Catherine,  296,  338,  y]'^- 
Betts,  Elizabeth,  280. 
Betts.  Emelia,  324. 
Betts,  Mrs.  Emily  H.,  183,  383. 
Betts,  Jno.,  272,  2)7-- 
Betts,  Justice  William,  198. 
Betts,  Mary,  269,  272,  273,  287, 

372.  308. 
Betts,   Mrs.   Beverley,  204,   225. 


Betts,  Nathaniel,  308,  343,  357. 
Betts,  Rev.  Beverly  R.,  156,  198. 
Betts,    Richard,    198,    257,    259, 

269,  2yz,  278,  286,  287,  350, 

352,  Z72- 
Betts,  Richard,  Jr.,  86,  174,  180. 
Betts,  Sarah,  295,  358. 
Betts,   Susannah,  292,  298,  301, 

303,  340. 
Betts,    Thomas,    259,    273,    285, 

370. 
Betts,    William,    182,    307,    343, 

357,  364- 
Beveridge,   Archdeacon,  48. 
Bi-Centenry     Celebration,     228, 

231. 
Billup,  Thomas,  302. 
Billup,  Mary  Lawrence,  308. 
Billup,  Frances,  310. 
Birchell,  Phebe,  295. 
Birdsall,  Nathan,  283. 
Bisbee,  Mrs.  H.,  223. 
Bissell,  Charles  E.,  233. 
Black  Camp  at  Hempstead,  212. 
Blackwal,  Jacob,  278. 
Blackwel,      Jacob,      Mary      and 

Sarah,  270. 
Blackwell,   Miss,   386. 
Blackwell,  Sarah,  285. 
Blagg,  Edward,  271,  287. 
Blagg,  Johanna,  271,  287. 
Blanchard,  Mrs.  A.  J.,  225,  233. 
Blanchard,    Mrs.    Kate    P.,    211, 

244,  384. 
Blank,  Elizabeth,  292. 
Blondel,  Charles,   183,  193,  244, 

383. 
Blondel,  Mrs.  Charles,  225,  233, 

244. 
Bloodgood.  Mary,  286. 
Bloome,  Jane,  319. 
Bloomer,  Rev.  Joshua.  95,    loi, 

585- 


406 


ORIGIN  AND  HISTORY 


Mr.  Bloomer's  death,  103,  109. 
Board  of  Associates,   196. 
Bogardus,  Antony,  371. 
Bogle,  William,  356. 
Bonney,  James,  301. 
Bottonie,  George,  ]\Iary,  Phyllis 

and  Wilmot,  172. 
Bottome.  Mrs.  Margaret,  105. 
Bottome,  Rev.   Francis,   165. 
Bottome,  Rev.  William  AI.,  165, 

166. 
Box.  Keziah,  318. 
Boyd,  Rev.  Melville,  160. 
Bond,  Sarah,  304. 
Bogert,  Cornelius  T.,   181. 
Boning.  George,  339. 
Bonney,   Elizabeth   and   George, 

297. 
Bonney.  James,  293,  297. 
Boroughs.  Lydia,  324. 
Bouchica,    Blakeney.    Catherine. 
Christopher.  John.  Thomas  and 
William,   298. 
Bouchica.      ChristO])her.      John, 

Thomas  and  William.  340. 
Bouton,  Nathan,  293. 
Bowe,  Mrs.,  181. 
Bowne,  Eliza,  318. 
Bowie,  Mrs.  Hays.  386. 
Boyd.  James,  294. 
Boyd,  John  L.,  294. 
Boyd,    Miss    Hester,    184,    205. 

209,  211,  244. 
Boys'    Club    of    Grace    Church. 

206,  245. 
Bracht.  Edv^in  C,  215. 
Bradford,  (iov.,   14. 
Bradlce.   Ann.   371. 
Braint,  Thomas.  257,  259. 
Brashier,   Elizabeth,   323. 
Brasher,  Mrs.,  181,  386. 
Brasher,  Miss,  386. 
Brass,  Catherine.  275.  285. 
Bray.  Dr.   Thomas.  35.  ^S,   40, 

41. 


Breck,  Mrs.  Anna  Duer.  184. 
Bremner,  John,  361,  365. 
Brenton,    B.   J.,    183,    185,    193, 

200,  202,  383. 
Brenton,  J.  J.  and  Sons.  182. 
Brenton,    Miss    Elizabeth,    203, 

207,  244. 
Brenton,     Mr.,     124,     126,    251, 

252,  176. 
Brenton,    Mrs.    B.   J.,   202,   225, 

233^  244. 
Brenton,  Rev.  Cranston,  202. 
Brewer,  Elizabeth,  323,  385. 
Brewer,  Mrs.,  iSi. 
Bridge,  Mrs.  Elizabeth.  62. 
Bridges,  Timothy,  86,  180. 
Brierly,  George,  234. 
Bright,  Hon.  John,  166. 
Brimmer,  John,  351. 
Brinckerhoff,      Hendrick.      137. 

182. 
Brinkerhoff,  Isaac,  368. 
Brinkerhoof,  Richard,  363. 
Briney,   Mary,   335. 
Bristow,  Edward,  292. 
Brooks,  James,  181. 
Brooks,  Mr..  176. 
Brooks,   Phillip,  281. 
Brooks,  Rocliffe  H.,  205.  206. 
Brooks,  Sarah.  319,  371. 
Brooks,  Wm.  and  Daniel.  371. 
Brown,   Catherine,  274,  275. 
Brown.   Charity,   274.   276,   28/ . 
Brown,  Dudley,  364. 
Brown,  Elizabeth.  314. 
Brown.  Eliza  Maria.  125. 
Brown.  Eliza  Mary  Ann.  3/2. 
Brown,  George,  292. 
Brown,  Hester,  275,  276. 
Brown,  James  L.,  372. 
Brown,  John,  281.  31  t.  327,  335. 
Brown,    josiah.    327.    361.    363. 

364. '368. 
Brown.  Miss  Eliza,  385. 


OF  GRACE  CHURCH 


407 


Brown,  Polly,  361. 

Brown,  Thomas,  274,  275,  276, 

284,  287. 
Brown,  Widow,  322. 
Browne,  J.,  Jr.,  213,  241. 
Browne,  J.,  213. 

Browne,  Miss  Gertrude  B.,  214. 
Brown  John,  Frank,  369. 
Brownjohn,     Maria    Ann,    298, 

340. 
Brownjohn,  Samuel,  298,  324. 
Brownjohn,   Thomas,   341. 
Brundige,  James,  292. 
Brush,  Rev.  W.  P.,  160. 
Brush,  Eve,  371. 
Bryan,  Archdeacon,  229,  244. 
Bryan,  Rev.  Henry  P.,  230. 
Buckbee,  Abigail,  342. 
Buckbee,    Benjamin,    301,    306, 

342. 
Buckbee,  Hannah,  303,  306,  342. 
Buckbee,  L.  C,  244. 
Buckbee,  Nancy,  306. 
Buckbee,  Sarah,  306,  342. 
Buckley,  Mrs.  Nora  King,  iS'6. 
Bugbee,   Sandford,   371. 
Burdett,   Edward,  320. 
Burger,      John,      Miriam      and 

Phebe,  296. 
Burger,  Phebe,  339. 
Burgess,  Bishop,  216,  231,  244. 
Burgess,  Mary,  281. 
Burgess,  Rev.  Dr.,  230. 
Burgess,  Rt.  Rev.  Frederick  W. 

D.  D.,  225,  228,  230. 
Burling,  Elizabeth,  308. 
Burling,  Sarah  Ann,  319. 
Burling,  Elizabeth,  343. 
Burling,  George,  291. 
Burling,  Joseph,   351. 
Burning  of  Grace  Church,   179. 
Burroughs,  Anna,  302. 
Burroughs,  Lydia,  301,  309. 
Burrows,  Benjamin,  298,  340. 


Burrows,  Deborah,  270,  268,  287. 
Burrows,  Freelove,  268,  269. 
Burrows,  Jno.,  268,  269. 
Burrows,  Joel,  268,  270,  287. 
Burrows,     Joseph     and     Lydia, 
Burrows,  Jud,  318. 
Burrows,  Mary,  268. 
Burrows,  Stephen,  269. 
Burrows,  Thomas,  270,  287. 
Burrough,    Mrs.    Mary    White- 
head, 57. 
Burtis,  Caroline,  383. 
Burtis,  C.  W.,  183. 
Burtis,  Lucy,  333. 
Burtock,  Abigail,  293. 
Burtis,  C.  E.,  151,  185. 
Butler,  Mr.,  170. 
Byenne,  Emma  M.,  334. 
Cady,  Mr.,  221. 
Caldwell,  Joseph,  303. 
Callison,  Elizabeth,  372. 
Camagne,  Augustus,  319. 
Camp,  Miss  Phebe,  115. 
Cufield,   M.,   176. 
Crey,  Miss  Alice,  213,  214. 
Carl,  John,  284. 
Carman,  Ann  Eliza,  317,  325. 
Carman,  Hannah,  281.  ■ 
Carman,     Washington     Joseph, 

317-  ^ 
Carman,  Samuel,  366 
Carmichael.  Rev.  Wm.  M.,  124. 
Carpenter,  Ann,  297,  339. 
Carpenter,   Benjamin,   325,   357, 

358-  359'  362. 
Carpenter,  David,  368. 
Carpenter,  Hannah,  295. 
Carpenter,  Increase,  363,  364. 
Carpenter,  Jacob,  351,  363,  364, 

367,  371- 
Carpenter,  James,  322. 
Carpenter,  John,  358. 
Carpenter,  Joshua,  351. 
Carpenter,  Mary,  303,  321. 


408 


ORIGIN  AND  HISTORY 


Carpenter.  Mr.,   176.   176. 
Carr,  J  no..  284. 
Carr,    Rachel,   292. 
Carr,  V'ashte,  293. 
Carter,  Caroline,  yj;^. 
Carter.  William   Henry,  316. 
Cavalry   Division   Hospital,   214. 
Ceba,  Ann,  369. 
Cebra,   Catherine,  360. 
Cebra,  Nancy,  306,  354. 
Chadwick,  Miss  Alma,  214. 
Chamberlain.  Mr.  John,  44. 
Chambers,  John,  y^. 
Channing-,  Elizabeth,  339. 
Chapin,  Miss  Leila,  214. 
Chapman,  David,  294. 
Charitable      Assn.      of      Grace 

Church.    154. 
Charles,    Hannah    and    William. 

287. 
Chickering,  Mrs.,  233. 
Choir  Leadershi]),  202. 
Creighton.  James,  356. 
Christine.  Mary,  285. 
Church  of  All  Saints.  199. 
Church,  Mrs.  H.,  244. 
Church.  John  B.,  317. 
Church  of  the  Alessiah,  206. 
Church.  Mrs.  Lillian  Ladd.  210. 
Church.  Oliver  Alden.  253. 
Church.  Rev.  F.  H..  230. 
Church  Charitv  Foundation.  224. 
Churchill.  Edward.  281. 
Churchyard    Endowment    Fund. 

185,   186. 
Cisco,  Phebe,  334. 
Clark,  AndrcAv.  86. 
Clark,  Catherine.  373. 
Clark,  Rev.  Charles  C.  231. 
Clark,  339,  297. 
Clark,  Hannah,  297. 
Clark.  Heman.  297. 
Clark,  Mr.,  176. 
Clarke,  Addison,  296,  338. 


Clarke,  Andrew,   iSo. 
Clarke,  Hannah,  2q6. 
Clarke,  Hcyman.  292. 
Clarke.  Heman,  296. 
Clerkson.  David  M.,  292. 
Clay,  Atlanta.  282. 
Clement,  Benjamin,  387. 
Clement,  Margaret,  271.  2"/^,. 
Clement,  Mary,  273. 
Clement,  Misses,   135. 
Clay.  Mary. 
Clement,  James,  271. 
Clement,  John,  271,  273. 
Clement,   Rebekah,  291. 
Clement,  Sarah,  285. 
Clements,  Mr.  and  Mrs..  387. 
Clemens.  Iday.  270. 
Clemens.  Jno.,  270,  271. 
Clemens,  Nathan,  270. 
Clemens,  Margaret,  270.  271. 
Clemens,  Sarah,  270. 
Clijtendaelc.      Paulus      Moulire. 

174. 
Clout.  Ann.  296,  338. 
Clout,  Cathrinc,  296. 
Clowes,  Alette,  28J.. 
Clowes,     Catherine,     268.     270. 

271,  273.  286,  373. 
Clowes.   Elizabeth   A..   387. 
Clowes.   Geradus.  273,  275. 
Clowes.   Jno.,  275. 
Clowes.  Joseph,  271,  2)7Z- 
Clowes.  Millicent.  285. 
Clowes.   Peter,  268. 
Clowes.   Mary,   2y^. 
Clowes.    Samuel.    86,    176.    t8o. 

268,  270.  271.  2y2,'  286. 
Clowes.  Sarah.  2y},.  275. 
Clowes.  Timothy.   lis.  291. 
Clowes.  A'alentine.  3S7. 
Coane.  John-M.,  222. 
Cockell,  John,  352. 
Cockifa.  Jane.  280. 
Codwise,  Anna,  315,  386. 


OF  GRACE  CHURCH 


409 


Codwise,    Alexander,    314,    323, 

Codwise,  George,  182,  327,  369, 

370. 
Codwise,  Mrs.  Catherine  H.,  245. 
Codwise,   Hamilton,   386. 
Codwise,  Jane,  388. 
Codwise,  John  B.,  181,  319. 
Codwise,  Mary,   181,  385. 
Codwise,  Mr.,  114. 
Codwise,     Theodore     Octavius, 

315- 
Coe,  John. 

Coe,  Nehemiah,  352,  353,  369. 
Coes.  Samuel.  '^'}^2i- 
Cogswell,  Alma  Sterling,  184. 
Cogswell,    Francis   J.,    183,    184. 

185,  222. 
Cogswell,  George,  164,  216,  233. 
Cogswell,  H.  v.,  206. 
Cogswell,  Miss  Pauline,  209,  244. 
Cogswell,  Theodore  J.,  164. 
Cogswell.  Theodore  J.,  201. 
Cogswell,     Miss    Virginia,     183, 

184,  203,  244. 
Cogswell,     WilHam,     164,     251, 

3S'3- 
Cogswell,  William  J.,    137,    189. 
Cogswell,  William  S.,   164,   182, 

184,   193,  222,  229,  233. 
Cogswell,  Mrs.  W.  S.,  183,  225. 

Coit,  John,  367. 

Colden,  Cadwallader,  257,  263. 

Golden,  David,  350. 

Coler,  William,  367. 

Coles,  Abraham,  364. 

Coles.  William,  333. 

Coles,  Martha  Ann,  2>ZZ- 

Coles,  Phebe  E.,  333. 

Colgan,  Fleming,  87,  360. 

Colgan,  John,  '^j. 

Colgan,  Jndith,  %y. 

Colgan,  ]Mar3\  85.  363. 


Colgan,  Rev.  Thomas,  56,  76,  86, 
180,  184,  193,  245,  297,  339. 

Colgan's,  Rev.  Wm.  death,  87. 

Collins,  Abraham,  285. 

Colum])ia   University,    198. 

Colyer,  Abraham,  351. 

Colyer,   Mary,   359. 

Combs,  Elizabeth,  273. 

Combs,  Gersia,  324. 

Combs,  Gilbert,  350. 

Combs,  John,  273. 

Combs,  Keziah,  359. 

Combs,  Mary,  273. 

Combs,  Phebe,  273,  372. 

Combs,  Richard,  "jt^. 

Combs,  Richard,  273. 

Combs,  Solomon,  273. 

Cornelias,  Miss,  209,  244. 

Comes.  Charity  &  Richard,  274, 
277. 

Comes,  John,  372. 

Comes,   Mary,  274. 

Comes,  Sarah,  291. 

Comes.  Thomas,  2,'j']. 

Comts,  John,  257,  259. 

Condale,  Thomas,  282. 

Consecration  service,  22S. 

Conklin,  Jacob,  370. 

Contait,  Elizabeth,  372. 

Contoit,  Francis  Henry,  321. 

Cook,   Mrs.   Jennie,  45,  384. 

Cook,  Rev.  Jere.,  230. 

Cook,  Rev.  Thomas,  201,  202. 

Cooke,  Miss  Annie  K.,  203. 

Coon,  Elizabeth,  292. 

Cooper,    William,    370. 

Corbine,  Jabez,  294. 

Cornbury,  Gov.,  39,  50,  52,  54, 
68,  71,  71,  7Z- 

Corneille,  Rev.  Samuel  J.,  129. 

Cornell,  Adelaide,  319. 

Cornell,   Ann,   306,  342. 

Cornell,   Rev.  A.  M.,   142. 

Cornell,  Benjamin,  320. 


410 


ORIGIN  AND  HISTORY 


Cornell,  Gloriana,  279. 
Cornell,  Hewlett,  328. 
Cornell,  Isaac,  321. 
Cornell,  Jno.,  279,  280,  283,  291, 

353- 
Cornell,  Mary,  294. 
Cornell,  Marg-aret,  292. 
Cornell,  Marsi,  269. 
Cornell,  Richard,  269,  280,  318. 
Cornell,  Samuel,  269,  352. 
Cornell,  Thomas,  280,  286,  291. 

297. 
Cornell.  Whitehead,  370. 
Cornhill,  Elizabeth,  278. 
Cornwall,  Jane  E.,  322. 
Cornwell,  Croes,   133. 
Cornwell,  Daniel,  129,  372,  386. 
Cornwell,  Mrs.  Harriet,  182. 
Cornwell,  Miss  Harriet  W.,  216, 

217. 
Cornwell.  John,  t^ji. 
Cornwell.  Phebe  \I.,  ^^^^^f. 
Cornwell,  Samuel,  334. 
Cortclyou,  James,  114,  323,  372. 
Cortelyou,  Aaron.  370,  372. 
Cortelyou,  Peter,  328,  2^'j2. 
Cortelyou,   Sarah   L.,  372. 
Cortelyou.  Susan.  372. 
Cosby.  Gov.,  78,  80. 
Cosine,  Jacob,  319. 
Cossart,  Edward,  319 
Cotter.  James.  294. 
Counsley,  John.  202. 
Courtney,  Bishop,  120. 
Cowes,  Gilbert.  2^^^. 
Cox,  Caroline,  320. 
Cox,  Dean,  229,  230. 
Cox,  Edward,  279. 
Cox,  Phebe,  279. 
Cox,  Rev.   Samuel.  230. 
Cox.  Thomas.  215. 
Caft.  Daniel.  317. 
Caft,  Gilbert,  321. 
Crane.  Alden.  383. 


Crane,  Rev.  Elias  W'.,  132,  247. 
Crane,    Harriet    Seabury,     176, 

182,  222. 

Crane.  John  M.,   152,   169,    176, 

183.  193,  228.  243,  250. 
Creed,  Wm.,  143,  279,  285,  287, 

2^22,  366.  367. 
Creed,  Augustus,  2i7^- 
Creed,  Benjamin,  352,  353,  361. 
Creed,  Miss  C.  L.,  383. 
Creed,  Charlotte,  299,  307,  t;!']. 
Creed,  Cornelius.  295. 
Creed,  Corsicana,  364. 
Creed,  Elizabeth,  283,  307,  342. 
Creed,  Eliza,  319. 
Creed,  Gilbert,  368,  371. 
Creed,   Hewlett,   299,   307,   310. 

360,  362,  363,  364.  368. 
Creed,  Mrs.  Hevvlett.  387. 
Creed,  Jem,  279. 
Creed.  Jane,  29<_),   341. 
Creed,  Mary.  278,  279. 
Creed,  Richard,  369,  370. 
Creed,  Sarah,  309. 
Creighton,  James,  293,  t^},' ,  362. 
Crews.  David.  215. 
Crommeline.  Charles.  350.  366. 
Crommeline,   Henry.  321. 
Crommelin,     Robert,    295,     303. 

329.  359- 
Crook,   Aug.,    Wm.    and    Marv, 

268. 
Grossman,  F.  G..  176.  384. 
Crovegers.  Tryntie,  20. 
Croxon.  Francis,  279. 
Culver,  George,  310. 
Cummings.  Ann.  317. 
Cummins.  Jno..  276. 
Cummins.  Thomas.  276. 
Cunningham.  Elviann.  388. 
Curtis.   Benjamin.    1S2. 
Cutler.  Dr..  3(). 
Cutting.  Mr.,  loi. 
Cuyler.    Henry.   ^'14. 


OF  GRACE  CHURCH 


411 


Dalton,  Elizabeth,  304,  341. 

Danion,  Miss,  233. 

Damon,  Mr.  G.  W.,  384. 

Damon,  Mrs.   Frederick,  233. 

Damon,  Mrs.  George  C.,  184. 

Damon,  Mrs.  George  W.,  183. 

Daniel,  Benjamin,  341. 

Daniel,  John,  292. 

Dacee,  Elizabeth,  280. 

Dashwood,  Ann,  297,  339. 

Dashwood,   Francis,  294. 

Davenport,  Rev.  G.  W.,  230. 

Davids,  Rebecca,  284. 

Davies,  James,  276. 

Davis,  J.    Bancroft,    185. 

Davis,    Mrs.    J.    Bancroft,    143, 
186. 

Davis,  Mrs.  Alice,  186. 

Davis,  Thomas,  215. 

Dawson.  Elizabeth,  297,  ^y^, 
388. 

Dawson,  Gilbert,  297,  339. 

Dawson,   Henry,  297. 

Dawson,  Jane,  373. 

Dawson,  John,  363. 

Dawson,  Miss,   181. 

Dawson,  Mrs.,  388. 

Dawson,  William,  293. 

Dayton,  Jacob,  280. 

Deakin,   John,   292. 

Dean,  Abigail,  Abraham,  Benja- 
min, Catherine,  Cuzziah, 
Jno.,  Mary,  Patience,  Phebe, 
Rachel  and  Stephen,  272. 

Dean,   Deborah,   269,   272. 

Dean,  Elizabeth,  269. 

Dean,  Hannah,  272,  287. 
Dean,  Jacob,  271,  287,  351. 

Dean.  John,  yT,. 

Dean,    Joseph,    269,    272,    278, 

282. 
Dean,  Samuel,  272,  281,  287. 
Dean,  Sarah,  272,  282. 
Deane,  William,  291. 


Debtor's  Prison,  20. 

Degruske,  Robert,  314. 

DeNeiland,  Lucretia,  ^y^. 

Delafield,  Dr.  F.,  185. 

Delancy,  Balthtis,  Esther  and 
Stephen,  297. 

De  Mill,  Abraham,   Tfy^. 

De  Mott,  Ann,  320. 

Denio,  Abraham,  Mary  and  Na- 
thaniel, 297. 

Denman,  Mary,  281. 

Denton,  Amos,  351,  369. 

Denton,    Catherine,    281. 

Denton,  Daniel,  Hannah  and 
Jno.,  273. 

Denton,  Frank  D.,   183,  2;^^. 

Denton,   George,    183. 

Denton,  James  L.,  183,  222,  367, 
373,  388. 

Denton,  John  L.,  182,  183,  193, 

373,  3^3- 
Denton,     Lawrence,     129,     181, 

373,  389- 
Denton,  Martha,  322. 
Denton,  Mrs.  John  L.,  169,  225, 

233- 
Denton,     Nathaniel,     351,     361, 

364- 
Denton,  Phebe,  321. 
Denton,  Rebecca,  T,y^,  389. 
Denton,  Robert,  yT,,  124,  353. 
Denton,   Samuel,  366. 
Denton,   Sarah,   318'. 
Denton,  Solomon,  282. 
Denton,  Timothy,  358. 
Denton,   Thomas,    360. 
Depeyster,  Ann,  303,  364. 

(See  also  Peyster.) 
Depeyster,  Eve,  314,  363,  sys. 
Depeyster,  Catherine,  ^73- 
De  Peyster,  James,  341,  353,  373. 
Depeyster,    Joseph    Reade    and 

Margaret,  292. 
Depeyster,  Mary,  295. 


412 


ORIGIN  AND  HISTORY 


Depeyster.  Miss  Sarali,   iii. 
Depeyster,  Sarah,  393. 
Derbyshier,  Daniel,  294. 
Derickson,  Charity,  284. 
Derickson,  Marv  and  W'alhrough. 

285. 
Dc  Stille.  Xioasius.  20. 
Detlieridi^c.  Miss  Florence.  211. 

225. 
Detheridge.  Mrs.  F.  F.,  213,  214, 

225,  228. 
Devine,  Mary,  293. 
Devoise,  James,  310. 
Dewint,  Mary  Margaret,  318. 
Deyson.  Miss,  388. 
Deyson,  Mrs.,  388. 
Dickson,   Captain    William,    174, 

Digby,  Admiral,  294. 
Kirby,  Mrs.,  214. 
Directory  of  Grace  Parish,  207. 
Disbrow,  Henry,  292. 
Dissenters,  67,  68,  69,  72.  83,  88. 
Dissenting  Meeting  House,  48. 
Ditmas,  John,  369. 
Ditmas,  Abraham,  359. 
Ditmas,  John,  360,  366. 
Ditmus,  Abraham.  351,  303. 
Ditmiis,   Catherine,  296. 
Ditmus,  Daw,  356.  . 
Ditmus.  Dowd,  296,  338. 
Ditmus,  Douwe,  296,  338. 
Dizart,  Mary,  279. 
Dizer,  Jno.,  286. 
Doak,  Mary,  292. 
Doane,  Bishop  William,   129. 
Doane.  George  Washington,  129. 
Dobbs,  Elizabeth  and  Mary,  296. 
Dobbs,  Jarvis,  292,  296. 
Dobbs,  Mary,  338. 
Dockerty,  Mrs.  A.,  387. 
Dodge,  William,  304. 
Donations  to  Grace  Church.  178. 
Donghan,  John  Carlton,  294. 


iJorland,  Ciarrctt,  358. 
i:)oughty,  Abigail  and  Elizabeth, 

294. 
Doughty,  Benjamin,  283. 
Doughty.    Charles,    Charity    and 

Mary,  279, 
Doughty,  Deborah,  291. 
Doughty,   Jane,   321. 
Doughty,  John,  354. 
Doughty,  Harriet,  303. 
Doughty,   Rev.   Francis,    17. 
Doughty,   Thomas,  285. 
Downing,  Deborah,  319. 
Downing,  W.,  234. 
Doxy,  Sarah,  319. 
Drake,  Benjamin,  295. 
Dickert,   Ernest,   215. 
Dudley,  Col.,  43,  45,  46. 
Dudley,  John,  300,  360,  364.  373. 
Dudley,  Mary,  2>72)- 
Dudley,  William,  354. 
Ducrs.   194. 
Duer,  Miss  Amy  H..  Miss  Sarah 

Grace,    Mrs.    Anna    V.    R., 

and  Denning.  186. 
Duer.  Col.  William,  198. 
Duffell,  Richard,  373. 
Dunbar,  Eliza  and  Alar}-.  7,-jt^. 
Dunbar,  Joseph,  366. 
Duncan.  Thomas,  296,  338. 
Duncan,  William,  387. 
Dungan,  Gov.,  28. 
Dunliam.   Asa,  234. 
Dunham.  Ray,  233. 
Dunnalson,  James,  270,  279. 
Dunnalson,   Mary,  270. 
Dunn,  Alexander,  306.  342. 
Dunn,  Carey,  361,  365. 
Dunn.  Deborah,  301,  306. 
Dunn,  John,  295,  301,  306,  364, 

369- 
Dunn.  Kendcl.  306,  342. 
Dunn.  Mr..   114. 
Duniibarr.  John,  2f)2,  297. 


OF  GRACE  CHURCH 


413 


Dunbar,  Aletta,  296. 
Dunbar,  Elizabeth,  296,  338. 
Dunbar,    George,   352,    355. 
Dunbar,  John.  296,  339,  354. 
Dunbar,  Joseph,  350,  351,  357. 
Durling,  Elizabeth,  303. 
Durling,  Garritt  and  John,  292. 
Durham,  Thomas,  291,  293,  304. 
Durye,  Jacob,  357. 
Durye,  John,  Tpy,  368. 
Durye,  Ruleif,  351. 
Duryea,  Cornelius  H.,  182. 
Duryea,  Jacob,  350. 
Duryea,  Anna,  306. 
Duryee,  Roloef,  306,  342. 
Dusenburie,  Hannah,  280. 
Dutch  Colonial  Period,   13,   16. 
Dutch  Consistory,  27. 
Dusenbury,  Henry,  278. 
Dutch  Reformed  Church.  27. 
Duval.  Miss  Susanna,  150. 
Dyson,  Mrs.,  181. 
Edwards,  Joshua,  280. 
Edwards,  Mrs.  Starr.  100. 
Edwards,  Mrs.   C,    160. 
Edgar,  Mrs.  Alice  Bayard,   186. 
Edget,  Elizabeth,  283. 
Eigenbrodt,   Rev.    Lewis   E.   A.. 

176,  181,  323,  385. 
Eigenbrodt.  Mrs.,  386. 
Eigenbrodt,  Patrick  Henry.  374. 
■Eigenbrodt.   Sarah,   374. 
Eigenbrodt.     Rev.     Samuel     R., 

112.  119.  120.  122. 
Eigenbrodt.  Rev.  William  Ernst. 

170. 
Eldred,  Catalina,  307. 
Eldred.  Eldred,  308.  343. 
Eldert,  Harriet,  316. 
Eldert.  Henry.  311. 
Eldert,   Isaac.  321. 
Eldert.  John.  340. 
Eldred,   Maria.  307.  342. 
Eldred,  Samuel.  307. 


Eldert,  Mr.,  114. 

Eldert,    Abraham,    Caroline,    H. 

W.,  Harriet,  Henrietta   and 

Susan,  2>7i- 
Eldert.  Sarah,  374. 
Eldert,  Samuel,  ^^^y^)'  Z^7- 
Ellsworth,  Mrs.  Elizabeth  V.  R., 

186. 
Ely,  Ann,  182. 

Ely.  Joseph  and  Sarah,  296,  338'. 
Ennes,  John,  350. 
Evans,  Rev.  Evan,  52. 
Evans,  Rev.  W.  P.,  230,  233. 
Ennis,  Wm.,  365. 
Evans,  John,  303. 
Evans,  Richard,  Thomas,  Harry 

and  Stephen,  268. 
Everet.  Abraham,  277,  281. 
Everett,  Bathsheba.  2yy. 
Everet,     Benjamin,     352,     366, 

i^7- 
Everet,  Daniel,  363,  365. 
Everett,  James,  2yy. 
Everet,  John,  363. 
Everet.   Nehemiah.  367. 
Everet,  Nicholas,  360,  363,  364, 

365- 
Everet,  Richard,  280. 
Everet,  Sarah,  277. 
Everett,  Thomas,  2yy. 
Everet,  Wright,  277. 
Everitt,   Mrs.   W.   E..   212,   213, 

214. 
Evers,  John,  295. 
Evers,  Susanna,  306. 
Fairchild,  Balthers,  339. 
Fairchild,  Peter,  339. 
Fairchild.  Elizabeth,  297. 
Fairchild,   Peter,  297. 
Fairchild,  Thomas.  292.  299,  302. 
Fall.   Dr.,  41. 
Farington.  Nancy,  304. 
Farmer.  John,  285. 
Farrington,  Letitia,  294. 


414 


ORIGIN  AND  HISTORY 


Farrington,  Matthew,  292. 
Fcatherby.  Jno.,  284. 

Fennern,  Chris.  215. 

Ferris,  James,  318. 

Ferris,   N.   Kimberley.  202. 

Fidlar,  George,  215. 

Field,  Augustine,  294. 

Field,  Dudley.  137. 

Field.  Elizabeth,  295,  320. 

Field,  Francis,  340. 

Field.   Frederick,  304. 

Field.  Hannah.  340. 

Field.  Joseph,  353. 

Field.  Richard,  Sarah  and  Ste- 
phen, 340. 

Fish,  Ambrose.  365. 

Fish,  Ann.  301.  339. 

Fish.   Elizabeth.  272.  291,  293, 
301. 

JMsh,  Jno..  272,  281. 

Fish.  Nathaniel.  339. 

Fish,  Sally.  306,  341. 

Fish,  Sarah,  272,  374. 

Fish.  Samuel.  78. 

Fleank.  Lank,  370. 

Fletcher.   Gov..  30,  30,  69. 

Fleury,  Mrs.  Jane,  184. 

Flewhellin,  Catherine.  281. 

Flower.  James,  280. 

Flower,  John,  318. 

Flynn.   Mrs.   T.  J.,   213. 

Folliot,  George,  354. 

Forbes,  Mrs.,  181. 

Forsseeil,  John,  40. 

Fosdick,   Fanny.  321. 

Fosdick,   Mrs.    Lewis    L.,   212, 
213. 

Foster.  James.  362.  370. 

Foster,  Jno..  280. 

Foster.  Sarah.  318. 

Fowler,  Abigail,  292.  303. 

Fowler,  Rev.  Andrew.  115. 

Fowler.  Ann,  293. 

I'^owler.  Basheba.  292. 


Fowler,  Benjamin,  280. 
Fowler,  Cornelius,  320. 
Fowler,  Jane.  308,  343. 
Fowler,  Juliane,  293. 
Fowler,    Mary.    269,    278,    308. 

343- 
Fowler,  Martha,  319. 
Fowler,    Oliver,   292. 
Fowler,  Sarah,  293. 
Fowler,  Stephen,  319. 
Fowler,  Rebecca,  281. 
Fowler.  William.  269.  287. 
Frances.  Adalard,  371. 
Francis,  Francis  and  Elizabeth, 

269. 
Francis,    James    and    Nicholas 

W..  333. 
Francis.  Jaspar.  269. 
Frederick,  Charity,  334. 
Frederick,  John,   336,   337. 
Frederick,  Hiram  A.,  387. 
Frederick,    Mary,    388. 
Frederick,  Susan  E.,  334. 
Freeman,  Maria.  314. 
Freeman.   Robert.  86.   180. 
French,  James.  383. 
French.  J.  B..  240. 
French,  Mrs.  J.  B.,  244. 
French,  Joseph,  353. 
French.  Mary,  292. 
Frost,  Sarah,  281. 
Furman,       Aaron,      Abraham, 

George   and   AVilliam,   275. 
Furman,  Alice.  270. 
Furman,    Mary.  281. 
Furman.  Martha.  278. 
Furman,  Susanna,  285. 
Gale,  Ann,  291. 
Gale,  Miss  Gertrude,  209.  213. 

214. 
Gale.  Miss  Mary  R..   167. 
Gnle.  Mr.,  152. 
Gale.  Mrs.  Adelia.  182. 
Gambrill,   B.   F..  215. 


OF  GRACE  CHURCH 


415 


Ganong,  James  Jervice,  Joanna 

and  Thomas,  296. 
Ganong,  Jeremiah  and  Martha, 

270. 
Gardiner,  Elizabeth,  280. 
Gardiner,  Mr.  Clement  E.,  loi. 
Gardiner,  Mrs.  Clement  E.,  242. 
Garrason,  Arianthe,  280. 
Garreson,  Jane,   287. 
Garret,  Hannah,  270. 
Garrett,  Joshua,  293. 
Garrettson,   Jno.,   286. 
Gates,  Horatio,  343. 
Gatore,  John,  355. 
Gatler,  John,  354. 
Gedney,   Deborah,  294. 
Gedney,  Elizabeth  and  Martha, 

293- 

Gemego,  18,  26. 

George.  John  G.,  320. 

Gifts  to  the  Church,  178. 

Gilbert,  Rev.  George,  125. 

Gildersleeve,  Ann,  317. 

Gildersleeve,  Sarah,  321. 

Giles,  Mr.,  91. 

Gilleen,  Catherine,  322. 

Gilston,  Miss  Elizabeth,  182. 

Gleane,  Wm.,  357. 

Gleen,  John,  358. 

Glenn,  Ann,  268. 

Glenn,  Thomas,  278. 

Glover,  Rev.  Herbert  J.,  231. 

Gold.  Cecelia,  306,  342. 

Goldin,  Catherine  and  Mat- 
thew, 272. 

Goldin,  Eliza,  285. 

Goldin,  Ephraim,  272,  273,  281. 

Goldin,  Jno.,  271,  272,  281. 

Goldin,  Mary,  273. 

Goldin.  Percival,  272. 

Goldin,  Sarah,  271,  272. 

Goodin.  Catherine,  Jno.  and 
Mary,  273. 

Goodman,  Eliza,  320. 


Goodman,  Miss  Pauline,  214. 
Goodwin,  Jno.,  284. 
Goodwin,  Judith,  302. 
Goodwin,   Samuel,  295. 
Gordon's,  Mr.,  untimely  death, 

Gordon,  Maria,  388. 

Gordon,  Rev.  Patrick,  40,  47. 

Gosline,  Patience,  291. 

Gosling,  John,  295. 

Gould,  Miss,  183. 

Grace  Chapter,  208. 

Grace  Church,  iii. 

Grace     Church     Chimes,     206, 

207,   214,  218. 
Grace    Church,    Rebuilding   of, 

181. 
Grace  Church3'ard,  172,  199. 
Grace     Circle     of     the     Kings 

Daughters,    169. 
Grace  Parish  Social  Guild,  206. 
Greenwich  Bay,  18. 
Gracie,  Marian,  320. 
Gracie,  Mrs.  William  R.,  135. 
Gracie,  Nancie,   181,  388. 
Gracy,  Daniel,  364,  366. 
Graham,  James,  72. 
Grant,  Robert.  385. 
Grassett,  Augustus,  285. 
Grawi,   Mary,   334. 
Green,  Ann,  321. 
Green,   Richard,  275. 
Greenoak,  David  Titus,  305. 
Greenoak,  Deborah,  305,  341. 
Greenoak,    Edward,    279,    304, 

305,  341- 
Greenoak,   Elizabeth,  304,  309, 

341- 
Geenoak,  John,  279,  291. 
Greenoak,  Mary,  279,  285. 
Greenoak,  Nathaniel,  304,  305, 

341. 
Greenoak.  Richard,  305. 
Greenoak,    Samuel,    181. 


416 


ORIGIN  AND  HISTORY 


(jrecnoak.  Sarah.  303,  341. 

Grego,  Elizabeth,  Alary,  Marsi 
and    Richard.    26S. 

Greg-son.  Samuel,  297,  339. 

(^resvvold,  Abigail,  374. 

Gresvvold,  Thomas,  374. 

GritTen.  Rev.  F.  S.  231. 

(jriftin,  Susanna,  283. 

Griffin,  Keziah,   185. 

Griffith.  John.  294. 

(irigg.  John.  302. 

Grigsby.  Sarah.  335. 

(iriswold.  Thomas,  365. 

(irover.  Rev.  George  C..  231. 

(juild,  Grace  Church  Charit- 
able, 224. 

Guion.  Lewis.  291. 

(iuriey,  John.  322. 

( lymnasium.  219. 

Habersham.   Miss.   323. 

Hadlock,  Elizabeth.  269.  280. 
286. 

Hadlock.  Miriam,  283. 

Hagerman,   Elbert,  291. 

Ilagner,  Alexander,  151,  153, 
"182. 

Hagner,   Henry  I..   132. 

Hagner,  Miss  Phel)e,  136,  307. 
224,  233. 

Hagner,  Misses,  383. 

Haight,   Lester,  234. 

I  laight.  Moses.  282. 

Ilaight.  Thomas.  308,  343. 

Hall.   Mary.  293. 

Hallet.   Benjamin,  304.  341. 

Hallet.  Grace.  278. 

Hallet,  Hannah  and  Jemima. 
292. 

I  lallet,  Harriet.  t,ji. 

Hallet.  Jno..  285. 

Hallet.    Joseph.    270.    285,    305. 

.^07." 
Hallet.    Lydia.  270.  307.  342. 
Hallet.  Mary.  270.  304,  305,  307. 


Hallet.     Moses    and     William. 

270. 
Hallet.  Rebecca.  305.  307. 
Hallet,  Richard,  305. 
Hallet,  Sarah,  303. 
Hallet,  Stephen.  305.  307. 
Hallet,     Bridget.    Jacob.    Jno.. 

Nathaniel,     Sarah^     .Small 

and  Thomas,  276. 
Hallett,  Daniel,  292. 
Hallett,  David,  293. 
Hallett.  Elizabeth.^  281. 
Hallett,   George,  282. 
Hallett.  James,  276.  339.  298. 
Hallett.  Joseph.  276,  279. 
Hallett,  Juda,  295. 
Hallett,   Lydia,  276,  293. 
Hallett.  Margaret.  322. 
Hallett,  Martha.  276.  281. 
Hallett.    Mary.    278.    279.    285. 

341- 
Hallett,     Moses    and     Richard, 

279. 
Hallett.  Rebekah.  298. 
Hallett.  Samuel.  276.  342. 
Hallett,  Stephen.  294.  298. 
Hallett,  William.  269,  287. 
Halligan.  W'm..  387. 
Halsey,  Benjamin  Roe,  317. 
Halworth,  Mrs.,  386. 
Ham,  Miss  Eva,  214. 
Hammel.  W^m.  and  Henry.  343. 
Hammell,   Catharine,   301. 
Hammell,    Rev.    William.    109. 

300.  307. 
Hammersly.  Lucretia.  303. 
Hammersley.  Sarah,  87,  295. 
Hannahs,  Thomas,  308.  343. 
Hanson.  Catherine.  280. 
Hard\-,   .\nn.  295. 
I  lard  v.  Mrs.  Elizabeth  G..  186. 
Hardv.  Sir  Charles,  88. 
Hare.'  Elizabeth.  2S2. 
Hare.   Martha.  304.  341. 


OF  GRACE  CHURCH 


417 


Hare,  Samuel,  304,  341. 
Hardie,  W.  Allen,  320. 
Harries,  William,  281. 
Harris,  Dr.  H.  S.,  214. 
Harris,  Hannah  and  Mary,  272. 
Harris,  Mrs.  Charles  H.,  213. 
Harris,  Rev.  Mr.  William,  115. 
Harris,  Samuel,  335. 
Harris,  Walter,  272,  281. 
Harrison,  Richard,  294. 
Harrison,  William,  82,   129. 
Hart,  Rev.  Seth,  115. 
Hartig,  Mrs.  Franz,  213. 
Hartshorn.  Richard,  303. 
Hartshorn,  W^illiam,  280,  304. 
Harvey,  Mrs.,  181,  386. 
Harvey,  Elizabeth,  335. 
Hassler,  Harriet,  383. 
Haviland,  David,  292,  296. 
Haviland,   Eugenia  and   Mary, 

296. 
Haviland,  Eugunrea,  339. 
Hayt,  Monson,  303. 
Hazalton,    William,  284. 
Hazard,  Catherine,  308. 
Hazard,   Elizabeth,  287,  302. 
Hazard,  James,  268,   271,  281, 

287. 
Hazard,  Jonathan  and  Rebecca, 

268. 
Hazard,  Pamela,  293. 
Hazard,  William,  271. 
Hazzard,    Catherine,    305.    341, 

343- 
Hazzard,  Morris,  305. 
Heathcote,     Caleb,     Elizabeth 

and  Martha,  273. 
Heathecote,  Col.,  t;j,  39,  54,  58, 

61,  72,  74,  81. 
Heathecote,  Martha,  177. 
Hedger,  Jane,  280. 
Hedger,  Sarah.  281. 
Hegeman,  Joseph,  Jr..  Jt^. 
Heigham,    Rev.    W.    H.,    231, 

243- 


Hempstead,  18. 
Henderson,  Abigail,   160,  374. 
Henderson,  Charles  C,  234. 
Hendron,  William,  215. 
Hendrickson,      Abraham      and 

Samuel,  369. 
Hendrickson.  Addra  and  Urias, 

Hendrickson,  Aletta  Anne,  321. 
Hendrickson,     Bernardus     and 

Henry,  368. 
Hendrickson,  Charity,  295. 
Hendrickson,  Elias,  371. 
Hendrickson,  Foster,  185. 
Hendrickson,  Ida,  374. 
Hendrickson,  Joseph,  317. 
Hendrickson,  Mr.,  114. 
Hendrickson,   Uriah,   367,   368, 

370,  371.  374- 
Henry,  Alexander,  233. 
Henry,   Charles,  2^};j. 
Henry,  James.  339,  342. 
Hepburn,  J.  N.,  215. 
Heptonstal,  Antie,  282. 
Heptonstal,  Jno.,  286. 
Herriman,  James,  360. 
Herring,  Agness,  284. 
Herny,  James,  296,  339. 
Herny,    Phillip    and    Susanna, 

296. 
Hersfield.  Isaac,  328. 
Hersfield,   Richard,   332. 
Hewlet,  Gilbert  V.,  320. 
Hewlet,  Jane,  303. 
Hewlett,   Devine.   182. 
Hewlett.   Frances,  317. 
Hewlett.   Hannah,   385. 
Hewlett,  Harvey  D..  322. 
Hewlett,   Isaac,  305,   341. 
Hewlett,  Jane,  125. 
Hewlett,  John,  326,  366. 
Hewlett,     Lewis     and     Oliver, 

320. 
Hewlett,  Martha,  182,  385. 


418 


ORIGIN  AND  HISTORY 


Hewlett,  Mr.,   1 14. 
Hewlett,  Rhoda,  305. 
Hewlett,    Samuel    and    Town 

send,  315. 
Hewlett.  Sarah,  334.  340-  385- 
Heyler,  Mrs.,  386. 
Hicks,    Abigail    and    William 

279. 
Hicks,  Ann  Louisa,  325. 


Hick 

Hicks 

Hicks 

Hicks 

Hicks 

Hicks 

Hicks 

Hicks 


Hicks 
Hicks 
Hicks 
Hicks 
Hicks 
Hicks 


306. 


Charity,  280. 

Charles  and  Helen,  383. 

Charlotte.  341. 

Elizabeth,  314.  374. 

Elinor,   274,  279. 

Hetty,  387. 

Jane,  374. 

John,  270,  274.  279,  295, 


Maria.  310.  389. 

Mary,  282.  374. 

Mr.,'  114. 

Mrs.  Helen  L..  181.  183. 

Mrs.  George  A.,  233. 

Patience   Susanna,  306, 

342. 
Hicks,  Robert,  270. 
Hicks,  Sarah,  291,  306,  327,  374. 
Hicks.  Smith.  181.  374. 
Hicks,    Stephen    284,   303,   310, 

328.  364.  368,  370,  374. 
Hicks,  Susannah,  342,  385. 
Hicks,  Thomas,  274,  308.  343. 
Hicks,     Zelia    C.     and     Major 

George  A..  159. 
Higbie,  Mr.,  176. 
Higbie,  John   B.,  321. 
Higby,   Nathaniel,  351. 
Higby,    Edward,    Joseph    and 

Mary. 
Higgins,  Mrs.  John,  211,  244. 
Higgins,  Stephen,  339. 
Hill.  Paul,  284. 
Hilton.   John,   350. 
Hilton.  W'illiam,  284. 


llinchman,  Anne.  314.  356. 
Ilinchnian.  Benjamin,  364,  370. 
llinchman,  Catherine,  314. 
Ilinckman   Eliza,  306. 
Ilinckman.  John.  305,  362,  363. 
llinchman.   Miriam,  374. 
Hinckman,  Mary,  305,  310. 
Hinchman.  Rachel,  318. 
Hinchman,  Robert,  353. 
Hinchman,  Sarah.  366. 
Hinchman,  Thomas,  352. 
Hinchman,  William,  305,  341. 
Hincksman.  Anne.  297,  352. 
Hinckman.  Eleanor,  308,  343. 
Hincksman.   Eliza,  342. 
Hincksman.  James.  284. 
Hincksman.  John,  353,  358. 
Hincksman.    Mary.   297. 
Hincksman.      Nehemiah.     365. 

366,  370. 
Hincksman.  Sarah.  326. 
Hobart.  Bishop,   113.   115.   116, 

119,   120,   129. 
Hobart,  John  Henry,  113.  116. 
Hobbs.  Rev.  J.  H.,  231. 
Hobbs.  Robert,  285. 
Hodger.  Jemima.  Susanna  and 

William.  273. 
Hoefer,  Arthur.  215. 
Hoffman.  Adrian.  335. 
Hoffman.  Charles.  384. 
Hoffman.  Mrs..  244. 
Holcomb.  Jeremiah.  293. 
Holden.  Archdeacon.  229.  230. 
Holden.  Rev.  William,  231. 
Hollall.  Eve.  334. 
Holland.  Susan.  318. 
Holmes.  Bert.  233. 
Holmes.  Abbey,  320. 
Holroyd.  Elizabeth.  298,  340. 
Holroyd,   John    and    Alargaret, 

298. 
Holroyd.  Margaret,  298. 
Holt.  Douglas.  234. 


OF  GRACE  CHURCH 


419 


Homans,    Rev.     Rockland    T., 

231,  250. 
Homans,  Rev.  Mr.,  203. 
Honeyman,  Rev.  James,  51,  37, 

Honeywell,      Elizabeth      Ann, 

304- 
Hoagland,  Cornelia,  323,  374. 
Hooglai>dt,  Elizabeth,  291,  316. 
Hoogland,  John,  129,  181,  384. 
Hoagland,   Susan,  389. 
Hook,  Augustus,  334. 
Hooper,  Thomas,  282. 
Hopkins,    Erank    E.,    167,    202, 

229,  234. 
Hopper,  Samuel,  295. 
Horan,  Mrs.  Jane  H.,  184. 
Horan,  Mrs.  S.,  384. 
Hopi,  Thomas,  338. 
Hornett,  Mary.  282. 
Horsfield,  Catherine,  374. 
Horshfield,  Israel,  283. 
Horshfield,  Joseph,  351. 
Horton,  James,  293. 
Horton,   Simon,  88. 
Hosack,  Alexander  and  Glori- 

ana,  394. 
Houghton,  Rev.  George,  198. 
Houlroyd.  Charles,  298,  339. 
Houlroyd,  John.  279,  298. 
Houlroyd,  Margaret,  297,  298. 
Houlroyd,  Mary,  297,  339. 
Howel,  Mary,  271. 
Howel,   Robert,  257. 
Howel,  Thomas,  281. 
Howell,  Dinah,  269,  271,  287. 
Howell  Mary,  287. 
Howell,  Robert,  86,  180. 
Howell,  Samuel,  269. 
Howell,  Thomas,  269.  271.  283, 

287. 
Hoyt,  Jesse,  322. 
Hoyt,    Mary   Colgan,   Johanna 
'  Smith,  87.  184. 


Hoyt,  Mr.,  176. 

Hubbard,  Rev.  John,  31,  51,  51, 

7?>- 

Hudson,  Henry,  13. 

Hugans,  Rachel,  269. 

Hughes.  Anne   Elizabeth,  337. 

Hughs,  Jane  and  Thomas,  286. 

Hugins,  Rachel,  280. 

Hulet,  Lewis,  278. 

Hull,  Dr.,  173. 

Huls,  Mary,  282. 

Hume,  Ann  and  Elihu,  297. 

Hunt,  Hannah,  292. 

Hunt,  Hugh,  215. 

Hunt,  Mary,  294. 

Hunt,  Charles  M.  and  Mrs. 
Annie  S.,   183. 

Hunt,  Robert  and  Thomas,  295. 

Elunter,  Gov.,  72,  74,  176. 

Hunter,  Henry,  John  and  Wil- 
liam, 374. 

Huntting,  Phebe  S..  335. 

Husher,  Francis  and  Eliza,  335. 

Huske,  Rev.  Kirkland,  199,  230. 

Hustead,  Elizabeth,  Jabez  and 
Mary,  296. 

Hustead,   Elizabeth.   338. 

Huston,  Charles,  215. 

Huston,  James,  352,  355. 

Huston,  James,  351. 

Hutchins,  John,  257,  306,  324. 

Hutchinson,  Thomas  337. 

Hyatt,  Rachel,  295. 

Hyatt,  Sarah,  295,  298  340. 

Hyatt,  Thomas,  298  340. 

Hyler,   Mrs.,   181. 

Ichenbrock,  Mr.,  176. 

Inglis,  Rev.  Charles,  95,  98. 

Ingoldesby,  Col. Lieut.  Gov.,  71. 

Innes,  Rev.  Alex,  53. 

Ireland,  John,   115. 

Jackson.   Isabel,  244. 

Jackson,  John,  William  and 
Eliz.,  269. 


420 


ORIGIN  AND  HISTORY 


Jackson,  Air.,    176. 

Jackson,  Ethalinda,  205. 

Jackson,  Mrs.  Job,  181,  182. 

Jackson,  Mrs.  S.  E.,  250. 

Jackson,  Mrs.,  389. 
Jacobs,  Grace,  284. 

Jamaica  Club,  241. 

Jamaica  Church    Controversy, 

67. 
James,  Hannah,  294. 
James,  Julia,  383. 
James,   Major,  352. 
James,  Martin,  375. 
James,  Mary,  285. 
James,  Percy,  234. 
James,  Thomas,  292. 
James.  William,  341. 
Jarvis,  Mrs.  \Vm.,  383. 
Jefifry,   William,  335. 
Jerman.  Margaret.  284. 
Jervis,  James,  338. 
Jessup,  Elizabeth.  374. 
Joel,  William,  387. 
Johnson,  Charles,  320. 
Johnson,  Cornelia,  294. 
Johnson,  Dr.,  134,  201,  245. 
Johnson,  Edward,  215. 
Johnson.       Elizabeth,       Mary, 

Samuel  and  William,  374. 
Johnson,  George,  387. 
Johnson.  Henry  M..  193. 
Johnson.     Rev.     John     Barent, 

126. 
Jackson,  Isabel.  383. 
Johnson,  M.  G..  151. 
Johnson,  Masson,  366,  368. 
Johnson,  Mrs.  H.  A.,  183. 
Johnson.  Mrs.  Mary  E.,  131. 
Johnson.    Mrs.   M.  'G.,    182. 
Johnson.  Mrs.  Susan,  185. 
Johnson.  Susannah.  319. 
Johnson,  Theodore.  183.  222. 
Johnson.  Rev.  William  Lupton. 

123.    128.   176.   183,  222. 


Jolmson,   Wm.  Martin,  360. 

Johnson,  Miss  Virginia.  141. 

Joley,  Jno.,  285. 

Jones,  Catherine,  284. 

Jones.   Charles.  215. 

Jones.    Edward.   275,   276.   ly"], 

-'83. 
Jones,  Helccha.  340. 
Jones,  Isaac,  t^zj,  369. 
Jones,  John,  296,  338,  369. 
Jones,  John  T.,   181. 
Jones,  Jonathan,  328,  369. 
J(jnes,  Rev.  J.  Clarence.  231. 
Jones,  Mary  and  Margaret,  268. 
Jones,  Nicholas.  296,  338,  350, 

356,  366. 
Jones,  Sarah.  275.  276,  2)~7- 
Jones.  Samuel,  I'j'j. 
Jones.  Thomas.  275. 
Jones.  Walter.  268. 
Jones,  Wm..  321. 
Jordan,  Stanley,  212. 
Joy,    Elizabeth     and     Richard, 

274. 
Judkin.   Francis.  282. 
kecr.  Mrs..  386. 
Keith.   George.  40,  43.   45.  46, 

yj'  T^z^  54- 

Kelly.  Elizabeth,  299.  305. 
Kelly.  Thomas.  294,  299,  305. 
Kemps,      Eliza.     Joanna     and 

John.  2>7> 
Kcnney.   Nathaniel.  305. 
Ketcham.  Ilieophilus.  278. 
Keteltas.  Clarissa.  366. 
Keteltas,  John,  368.  388. 
Kieft,  Governor,  16. 
Kimliall.  Catherine.  278. 
Kimlier.   Rev.  Joshua. 
Kim])or.  Rev.  Robert  B..  231. 
King.     Archil)ald     and     Alsop. 

King.  Charles.    152.    186. 
King.  Mrs.  Charles.  143.  186. 


OF  GRACE  CHURCH 


421 


King.    Miss    Cornelia,   85,    152, 

182,  195,  185.  204,  22,-7. 
King,  Caroline,   185. 
King,   Elizabeth,   186,  374. 
King,  Ellen,  186,  375. 

King,    Frederick    and    Henry, 

375- 

King,  Mrs.  Isabella  C,  186. 

King,  James   (Junior),  323. 

King,  James  Gore,   185. 

King,  Mrs.  James  Gore,  186. 

King,  Gov.  John  A.,  85,  124, 
126,  133,  134.  137,  140,  143, 
165,  182,  185,  186,  189,  222, 

^37- 
King,  John  A.,  Death  of,  143. 
King,  John  A.,  Jr.,   182. 
King  Manor  Park.  85. 
King,  Mary  C,  183. 
King,  Mary  Colden,  152,  222. 
King,  Mary,  328.  199,  200,  374. 
King,  Rufus,  323,  374. 
King,   Mary   Rhinelander,    160, 

183,  199,  222.  223. 

King,  Hon.  Rufus,  85,  iii,  119, 
120,  121,  122.  122,  181.  199, 

370,  385- 

King,  Mrs.  Sarah  Rogers,  182. 

King,  Daughters  of  the,  208, 
209,  223,  240. 

Kingsberry,  Martha.   182. 

Kingsbury,  Mr.,  386. 

Kinksman,  Elizabeth,  Obadiah 
and  Thomas,  279. 

Kinley,  Adam,  Benj.,  Eliz.,  Jo- 
seph and  Martha,  275. 

Kippin,  Walter.  281. 

Kirby,  Charles  M..  183. 

Kissam.  Mrs.  Ann.   182,  389. 

Kissam,   B.  T.,   181. 

Kissam.     Benjamin.     181.    317. 

319'  327- 
Kissam.  Catherine.  297,  339. 
Kissam,   Daniel,  297,   305,  326, 

358,  361,  366,  370,  375,  384. 


Kissam,  Elizabeth,   295. 

Kissam,  Dr.  George  H.,  182. 

Kissam.  Joseph,  285. 

Kissam.  Mrs.  Margaret,  389. 

Kissam,  Mary,    297,    305,    341, 

375- 
Kissam,   Mr..    114,    176. 
Kissam,  Peggy,  182,  317,  319. 
Kissam,  Phebe.  322. 
Kissam,  Tredwell,  368. 
Kneeland,  Henry,  181. 
Knights  of  Temperance,  219. 
Knipschild,  Henery,  293. 
Knoechel,  Louis,  336. 
Koph,  Frank,  216. 
Kowe,   Elizabeth.  292. 
La  Combe.  Clara.  318. 
Ladd,  H.  Abbott,  253. 
Ladd,    Miss    Eirene,    183.    203, 

206,  233.  244,  253. 
Ladd,  Gabriella  M.,  253. 
Ladd,  Harriett  Vaughan  Abbott, 

253- 
Ladd,  Rev.  H.  O.,  183,  193,  212, 

230,  251,  267. 
Ladd,'  Mrs.  H.  O.,  225. 
Ladd,     Lillian     Ladd     Church, 

253- 
Ladd,  Maynard,  M.  D.,  253. 
Ladd,  Vernon  Abbott,  253. 
Ladies'      Missionary      Society, 

207. 
Laffan,  Margaret,  293. 
Lake,  James  R.  and  Eliz.,  125. 
Lallman,  George,  334. 
Lamberson.  Corsicana.  366. 
Lamberson.    David,    350,    357, 

367,  368,  371. 
Lamberson.   Eliza.  375. 
Lamberson,  Sarah,  375. 
Lambert.  Nicholas,  280. 
Lamphear,  Mrs.,  160. 
Langdon,  Jane,  283. 
Langdon,  Joseph,  281. 


422 


ORIGIN  AND  HISTORY 


Lanman,  Benjamin  and  Sarah, 

375- 
Lapman.  Mrs.  Kittie  E.,  214. 
Lashford,   Elizaljcth,  282. 
Latham,  Margaret.  165. 
Latham,  Priscilla,  283. 
Lating.  Sarah,  327. 
Lattin.  Horionter,  291. 
Latting.  Garritt,  291,  350. 
Lawrence,  Adam,  257,  273,  272, 

275  282. 
Lawrence,  Ann,  292. 
Lawrence,  Benjamin,  295,  320. 
Lawrence,  David.  293,  308,  343. 
Lawrence,    Dcl)orah,   ij^i^   276, 

279. 
Lawrence  Eliza,  277. 
Laurence,   EHzabeth,  286,  304. 
Lawrence,   Gilbert,   275. 
Lawrence,  James,  359. 
Lawrence,  Jane,  321. 
Lawrence,   Malancthon,   305. 
Lawrence,  Maria,  305,  341. 
Lawrence,  Mary,  293,  343,  294, 

302. 
Lawrence,  Mary  Elizal^eth,  321. 
Lawrence,  Nathaniel.  276,  277. 
Lawrence,  Patience,  301. 
Lawrence,    Richard,    295,    298, 

339.  341- 
Lawrence,  Robert,  293. 
Lawrence,  Sarah.  273,  305,  341. 
Lawrence,   Susanna.  277. 
Lawrence,   Susannah,  276. 
Lawrence,  William,  343. 
Leach,  Sarah,  307. 
Leach,  Obadiah,  307.  359.  318. 

342. 
Leak,  Sarah  Anne.  333. 
Leavenworth,  Miss,  244. 
Le  Branthwaite,  Abraham.  318. 
Lefferts.  Lsaac.  363.  yj}^. 
Lee,  Christian,  285. 
Lee.  Mrs.  Hortense  Campbell, 

184. 


Leister,  Margaret,  292. 
Lent,  Anna,  303. 
Leonard,  Bishop,  199. 
Leonard,  Charity,  276. 
Leonard,  James,  276,  283. 
x^eonard,  Mary,  276,  375. 
Leonard,  Thomas,  356. 
Lepner,  Sarah,  388. 
Leslie,  George,  375. 
Lester,  Maria  Lester,  334. 
Lewis,    Abigail,   2S2. 
Lewis,  Ann,  308,  343. 
Lewis.   Catherine,   271. 
Lewis,   Eloisa,  298,  339. 
Lewis,  Elizabeth,  297,  298,  306. 
Lewis,   Francis,  271,  297,   298, 

306. 
Lewis,  James  T.,  182. 
Lewis,  Jeptha,  269,  271. 
Lewis,  Horatio  Gates,  308. 
Lewis,  Katherine,  269. 
Lewis,  Nathaniel.  307,  324.  343. 
Lewis,  Sarah,  269. 
Lewis,  Mrs.  T.  W.,  213. 
Lewis,  Thomas,  282. 
Littlejohn.    Bishop,     149,     197, 

218,  225.  226,  227. 
Livingston.  Beloyal,  296. 
Livingston  Phillip,  296. 
Livingston,  Robert,  38,  53. 
Linville,  Roy,  215. 
Llewellyn,    W.    D.,    183,    184, 

'94.  22,},. 
Lie  well  vn,  William  D..  184. 
Llewellyn.  Mrs.  W.  D..   183. 
Llewellyn.  Mrs.  Mary  Wilcock- 

son,  184. 
Lloyd,     Henry     Rebecca     and 

Wm.,  276. 
Lockwood,  C.  A.,  1^2^. 
Lodge.  J.  Augustus,    IS4.    t8^, 

185. 
Lointhman,  Thomas,  257,   259. 
London,  Mrs.,  388. 


OF  GRACE  CHURCH 


423 


Long  Island  Democrat,  201. 

Losey,   Daniel,  321. 

Losee,  Jno.,  282. 

Lot,  Charity,  293. 

Lot,  Johannis,  368. 

Lothian,  James,  384. 

Lothian,  Mrs.,  233,  244. 

Lott,  Abraham,  370. 

Lott,  Francis,  160. 

Lovatt,  Mr.,  183. 

Lovelace,  Gov.,  26,  71. 

Lowistoth,  Margaret,  304. 

Loweree,  Margaret,  320. 

Loweree,  Isaac,  Martha,  Rich- 
ard, Samuel  and  William, 
342. 

Lowree,  Richard,  306. 

Lowree.  William,  291,  306. 

Luckey,  Miss,  214. 

Ludlow,  Arabella,  296,  297. 

Ludlow.  Daniel,  297. 

Ludlow,   Elizabeth,  302. 

Ludlow,   Gabriel.   298. 

Ludlow,  Daniel,  296. 

Ludlow,   Frances,   294,  297. 

Ludlow,  Mary.  294. 

Ludlum,    Mary,   318. 

Ludlum,  Nathaniel,  363,  366, 
367.  370. 

Ludlum.  Daniel.  359.  362,  364. 

Ludlum,  Wm.,  362,  369. 

Ludlow,   Gabriel,  340. 

Ludlum,  John,  365,  370. 

Luff.  Gabriel.  86.^  180. 

Lyde,  Miss,  388. 

Lyde,  Mr..  181. 

Lyell.  Rev.  Dr.,  116. 

Lyon,  Miss  C.  C,  183. 

McClean.  Margaret,  294. 

McClintock,  Mrs.  F.  F.,  214. 

McCollum,  Phebe.  292. 

McCormick.  Mrs.  Elizabeth 
Thurman.  242. 

McCormick,  Mrs.  Richard  C, 
184. 


McCormick,  Richard,  184,  242. 

McDaud,  Charles,  295. 

McDonald,  John,  James  and 
Sophia,  297. 

McDonald,  Miss  Margaret,  165. 

MacDonald,  Mrs.,  202. 

McDuffy,  Rev.  H.  S.,  240. 

McErny,  David,  Jane  and  Wil- 
liam, 277. 

McEvers,  Catherine,  294. 

McEvers,     Charles,     351,    353, 

357- 
McFarland,      Miss      Elizabeth, 

250. 
McFarland,  Mary,  185. 
McGee,  James,  317. 
McGuft'ey,    Rev.    Edward    M., 

230,  231. 
McKay,  William,   181. 
McKee,  Mrs.,  387. 
McKenzie,  37. 
McKinley,    William,    death   of, 

225. 
McKinley,     President,     letters 

of,  214. 
McKrell,  James,  300,  328. 
McKrell,   Martha,  309,  343. 
McKrell,  Millar,  300. 
McKrell,  William,  303. 
McKee,  Peter,  291. 
McKee.  William,  323. 
McMullin,     Rev.     G.     Wharton, 

223,  230,  233. 
McNeil,    Major    Charles,     181, 

2^27,,  362. 
McNiel,  Oliver.  314. 
McNiel,  Thomas  Pelham,  315, 

316. 
McNeile,  George  Benjamin  and 

Robert.  309. 
McNeill,  Mrs..  388. 
McNeill   (Neil),  327,  369. 
McNeill.  Robert,  325. 
McNeill,  Sarah,  326. 


424 


ORIGIN  AND  HISTORY 


McNish,  (Jeo..  71,  "jt,,  yG,  yy. 
Mc\'icker,  John,  292. 
Mackintosh.    Phineas,  283. 
Mackarcl,   iJaniel,  315. 
Mackrell.  James,  326,  363,  365, 

366.  369,  370.  375. 
Mackeral,  John  Smith,  310. 
Mackrell,     Leticia     and     Milli- 

cent,  375. 
Mackrell,  Mr.,   114. 
Mackrell,  Sarah,  375. 
Mackrell,  Wm.,  326. 
Madock,  Ann  and  Charily.  2yy. 
Madock,   Daniel,  277. 
Major,  Ann,  285. 
Mann.  Mary  Anne,  ^^iZ- 
Mann.  Thomas  Charles,  292. 
Many,  Rol:)ert,  334. 
Maria,  Eliza,  125. 
Mariner.   Andrew.  286. 
Marshall.  Henry  John,  320. 
Marston.    Isahellc.  294. 
Alartimore.  Catherine,  274,  275. 

277. 
Martimorc.   l''.li/:a.l)elh.  277. 
Martimore.  Hannah,  275. 
Martimore.  Robert.  274. 
Martimore,    Tlionias.   274.   275. 

2yy. 
Martin.  F.  T.,  183. 
Martin,    Mrs.    F.    T.,    183.    203. 

209,  244. 
Martin,  Rev.  Thomas,  231. 
Marton.   Thomas,    365. 
Mash,  William.  283. 
Masten.  Frank.  363. 
Mayer,  Miss  Alice  C.  244,  245. 
Mather,  Revd.  Cotton,  36. 
Matthis.   James,  John.  Joseph, 

Sarah  and  Martha.  lyy. 
Meenen,  James,  293. 
Meeting-  House  Lane.  56. 
Meke.  Wm.,  366,  370. 
Melony,   Joseph,   335. 


Memorial  Parish  House,  247. 
Menger.   Wm.,  335. 
Men's  Club  of  Jamaica,  170. 
Menschen,  Edward,   t^t^^. 
Meredith,  Capt.  John,  292. 
Merriwood,  198. 
Mesier,    Rev.    Henry,    231. 
Mesnerg,  John,  351. 
Messenger.  Ann,   375. 
Messenger,  John.   359,   362. 
Messenger,  Margaret,  375. 
Messenger,  Samuel,  368,  369. 
Messiah,  Church  of  the,  206. 
Meyer,  John  J.,  216. 
Meynen,   Mr.,   176. 
Meyncn,    Dr.    George    K.,    160, 

193,  213.  22,2>,  250. 
Meynen.  Mrs.   (ieorge  K..  211, 

214.  22,2,. 
Mevnen,    P.    K..    183.    184.   250. 

'  384. 
Meynen.  Mrs.   P.   K..   184.  203. 

210,  211.  225,  233. 
Meynen.   Mrs.  P.  K..   184,  203. 

210,    21  I,    225.    27,2). 

Middleburg,   18. 

Mi j ward.    Robert    and    James, 

269. 
Milledoler,  Dr..  i  17. 
Millar.   Henry.  215. 
Miller.  Amelia,  337. 
Miller.  Cynthia,  275. 
ATiller.  Deborah,  295. 
Miller.  Jacob.  317. 
Miller.  Jno..  274.  275,  2yy. 
Miller.  John  Jacob,  336. 
Miller.  Julia.  274.  275.  277. 
Miller.    Sarah.   274.   375. 
Miller.     Sarah     Julianna.     316, 

325- 
Mills,  Amos,  ^^y,  359.  361,  369. 

Mills,  Caleb.  326.  364.  366,  367. 

375- 
Mills.'  Catherine.   375. 


OF  GRACE  CHURCH 


425 


Mills,  Hope,  351,  353. 

Mills,  John,  375. 

Mills,  Mrs.  Mary  S.  G.,  87,  184, 

245- 
Mills.  Nathaniel,  326,  351,  366, 

375- 
Mills,   Obadiah.  350. 
Mills,  Peter,  326. 
Mills,  Robert,  293. 
Mills,    Samuel.    278,    351,;    368, 

370. 

Mills.   Small.  282. 
Milward.   Robert,  286. 
Minema,    Daniel.   365. 
Minuit.  Gov.,  14. 
Mitchell.  George,i32i. 
Mitchell,  John,  303,  322. 
Mitchell,  Margaret,  291. 
Mitchell,  Robert  B..  233,  244. 
Miurson,  Mr.,  2t7- 
Moehler.   Eleanora.'  337. 
Montress,   Sarah.   318. 
Moore,  Abigail,   302. 
Moore,   Abraham,   339. 
Moore,  Ann.  292. 
Moore.  Anna,  307,  342. 
Moore.  Benjamin.  278.  279,  298, 

339- 
Moore,  Bishop  Richard  C.,  113, 

116.   129. 
Moore.  Charity,  270.  292. 
Moore,  David.  292,  307. 
Moore.     Elizabeth     Channing. 

296. 
Moore,  Elizabeth,  298.  306. 
Moore,   Fanny,  302. 
Mooshake,   Frederick,  333. 
Moor,  Hannah,  279. 
Moore,  Jacob.  292.  298. 
Moore.  James,  306. 
Moore,  Jane,  297. 
Moore.  Jemima.  307. 
Moore,   Johanna,   296.    301. 
Moore,  Johanna;  296.  301. 


Moore,  John,  301,  306,  342,  356. 
Moore,  Rev.  John,  86,  113. 
Moore,  Joseph,  307. 
Moore,  Judahy  296. 
Moore,   Lambert,  357. 
Moore,  Lydia,  305,  341. 
Moore,  Martha,  292. 
Moore,  Mary,  279,  292,  295. 
Moore.j     Nathaniel,     293,     296, 

305-  339- 
Moore,  Nathan  Fish,  297. 
More,  Patience,  294,  309. 
Moore,  Rebecca,  294,  305,  341. 
Moore,  Samuel  Hallet.  307. 
Moore,.  Samuel,   352. 
Moore,    Sarah,    296,    301,    303, 

338. 
Moore,   Thomas,   307,   342. 
Moore.    William.   297. 
Moor,   Samuel,  270. 
Moorm,    Samuel,    287., 
Morgan,  Seabury,  John  I..  304. 
Morrell,  Abbey.  308,  343. 
Morrell,  Abigail,  291. 
Morrell,  Fanny,  314,  340. 
Morrell,   James.    297.    301.    326, 

364,  366,  367,  375. 
Morrell,  James  Gilbert,  320. 
Morrell,  John,  308,  343. 
Morrell,   Joseph,   301. 
Morrell,  Richard,  324. 
Morrell.  Robert.  353. 
Morrell,    Sarah,   291,   301,   308, 

326,   343.   7>7S- 
Morris,    Anna    and    Margaret, 

205. 
Morris,  Col..  39.  43,  45.  46.  48, 

54,  58.  68,  72,  'j^,  74. 
Morris.  Elizabeth,  324. 
Morris,  Mrs.  George,  211. 
Morris,  Miss  Isabel.  205. 
Morris,  Joseph.  359.1  365. 
Morton.  Richard,  340. 
Moses.  Mark   Edward.  338. 


426 


ORIGIN  AND  HISTORY 


Moss,  Parnel,  281. 

Mott,  Rev.  Edmund,  53. 

Mott,'  Elizabeth,  319. 

Mott,  Lavina,  326. 

Mott,  Mary  and  Thos.,  321. 

Mott,  Miriam,  280. 

Mottley,  John,  375. 

Muchmore,    Frank,   233. 

Miiller,  Johanna.   T^T^y. 

Munden,  Jno.,  282. 

Mungers,  Elizabeth,  279. 

Mungers,  Jno.,  279. 

Murrai    (Murrail    or    Murrel), 

A])igail,   268,  2y6',   Daniel, 

268;     Hannah,     275,     276; 

Hester.     268;     Jno.,     268; 

Jonathan.     268,     276,     277, 

281;    Judith.    268;    Mary, 

2yy;     Parnell,     276,     277; 

Robert,    268;    Sam'l,    275; 

Susannah,     268;    Thomas, 

268. 
Napier,  Andrew,  181,  182,  304. 

367,  368,  370. 
Napier,  Ann,  375. 
Napier,    Mrs.    Catherine,    182, 

Z^y,  375- 
Napier,'   Charles    C.    170,    183, 

185.  193.  203,  222,  384. 
Napier,  James,  315. 
Napier,  John,   151,   185,  316. 
Napier,  Mrs.  Julia  E.,  183. 
Napier,  Miss  Kate,  233. 
Napier,  Miss  S.,  384.    ' 
Napier,  Mr.,  124,  176. 
Negrand.  Adam,  335. 
Nelson,  Mr.  Joseph,  128. 
Neppcrt,  Robert,  215. 
Nisbctt,   Rev.   James,    198. 
Nisbett,  Miss  Emily  Henrietta, 

198,  204. 
Newbold,  Rev.  Charles  L.,  231. 
Newman,  John,  215. 


Newman,   Sarah   and    William, 

Nicholson,  Gov.,  25,  26,  38,  52. 
Nicholls,  Ann  Maria,  322. 
Nichols,  Walter,  185. 
Nicoll,  Henery,  292. 
Nicols,   Catherine,  271. 
Nicols,   Francis,  271,  282,  287. 
Nicols,!  Gilbert,  zyT,. 
Nicols,  Jane,  273. 
Nicols,  Sarah,  271,  287. 
Nick,  Catherine,  Elizabeth  and 

Peter,  271. 
Nies,  Rev.  William  E.,  231. 
Niles,  Bishop,   125. 
Noland;  Phillip.  388. 
Northam,    William,  284. 
Nostrand,  Aaron,  359,  364. 
Nostrand,  Catherine,  332,  378. 
Nostrand,  Effy,  322. 
Nostrand,   Eliza,  320. 
Nostrand,  Elizabeth,  343. 
Nostrand,  George,  182. 
Nostrand,  Gitty,  376. 
Nostrand,  John,  318,  376. 
Noostrandt,  Greetie,  292. 
Nostrand.  Mary,  293. 
Nostrand,    Mary   Ann,    343. 
Nostrand,    Timothv,    181.    ^76. 

Nostrand,  Miss,  2,^y. 
Nostrandt,  Stephen  Lott,  315. 
Nostrant,   Elizabeth  and  John, 

308. 
Muller,  Gearteaj  278. 
Oakley.  Wilmot.  368. 
Oborne,  Miss  Bessie,  209. 
Oborne,    Ernest,    383. 
Oborne,   Miss  Aline,  209. 
Oborne,  Misses,  211,  249. 
Ogden,  Elizabeth,  291.  376. 
(^gden,  Isaac.  ^^2. 
Ogden,    Jacob,    2t,y,    259,    295, 

350- '376- 


OF  GRACE  CHURCH 


427 


Ogden,  Mrs.  Jacob,  354. 
Ogden,  Mary,  293,  324,  396. 
Ogilvie,  George,  280. 
Okely,  Patience,  282. 
Oldfield,  Hannah,  284. 
Oldfield,  Joseph,  114,  176,  257, 

326,  351,  366,  376. 
Oldfield,  Miriam,  292,  388,  396. 
Oldfield,  Widow,  322. 
Olmstead,    Rev.    Dr.    Charles, 

198. 
Onderdonk,  Henry  C.,,  65,  156, 

264. 
Onderdonk,  Dr.  John,  295. 
Onsterman,  Peter,  319. 
Oyster  Bay,   18. 
Pace,  Miss  Maud,  214. 
Palmer,   Aaron,  318. 
Palmer,  Thomas  Martin,  294. 
Parfitt,  Albert,  220. 
Parish    Guild,    205,    210,    233, 

240,  344. 
Parish    House,    172,    210,    218, 

220,   246. 
Parker,  Edward,  365. 
Paul,;  Sarah,  295. 
Payne,  Ann,  338. 
Payne.  A.  T.,  384. 
Peat,   Hannah,  287. 
Pearson,   Rev.   Mr.,   124. 
Peck,  Rev.  Isaac,  231,  305,  341. 
Peck,   Richard,  305. 
Pedroni,  Victor  A.,  319. 
Pell,  Maria,  302. 
Pell,  W.  H.,  384. 
Pennington,  Frederick,  336. 
Perry,^  Bishop  J.  J.  P.,  244. 
Perry,  William,  179. 
Pette,  Michael,  184,  384. 
Pets,  Harold,  233. 
Pette,  Lydia  Euler,  184. 
Pettit,  Hannah,  297,  339. 
Pettit.i  Isaac,  297,  299.  301,  305, 

352,  356,  359.  366.^ 


Petitt,  James,  294. 

Pettit,  Jeane,  307. 

Petitt,  Jenny,  343. 

Pettit,  Mary,  297,  299.1  301,  305, 

339. 
Pettit,  Mr.,  176. 
Pettit,  Sarah,  305,  341. 
Pettit,    Samuel,   297,   339, 
Pettit,  Susan,  185. 
Pettit,  Wm.,  299,  340. 
Peyster,   De,   Ann,  James   and 

Sarah,  300. 
Phillips,    Benjamin    and    Edw., 

269. 
Phillips,  Daniel,  278. 
Phillips,   Martha,  285. 
Phillips,  Mary,  269. 
Phillips,  Theophilus,  280. 
Phraner,  Rev.  W.  H.,  231. 
Pierce,  Miss,  233. 
Pifer,  George,  336. 
Pigot,  Rev.  Mr.,  52. 
Pilyoun,  Peter,  314. 
Pinckney,  Amantha,  Cecile  and 

Susan,  T^yG. 
Pinckney,  P.  C.,  387. 
Pitman,  Charles  W.,  322. 
Pitnot,  Theresa,  335. 
Place,  Mehetible,  321. 
Piatt,  Anne,  332. 
Piatt,  Benjamin,  294. 
Piatt,  David,  317,  370. 
Piatt,  Richard,  302. 
Poillon,  Margaret  A.,  315. 
Polhemus,  Frederick,  181^  298. 
Polhemus,  Johanne,  369. 
Polhemus,  John,  298,  339,  350, 

352. 
Polhemus,  Tunes,  352. 
Polhemus,  Sarah,  298. 
Polhemus,  Miss,  385. 
Pomerby,  Harriet,  338. 
Pomeroy,    Anna,    Harriet    and 

Josiah,  296. 


428 


ORIGIN  AND  HISTORY 


Pond,  R.  !•:.  and  Airs..  183. 

Pool,  Pierre,  276. 

Pool.  Mary  and  James,  276. 

Poole,  James   11.,  ^^^. 

Port,  Aliss  Irma.  209,  211,  244. 

Potter,    Bishop     Horatio,     140, 

141,   142. 
Potter,    Rt.    Rev.    Henry    Cod- 
man,  228. 
Povvell.1  Oliver,  385. 
Powell,  Mrs.,  386.^ 
Powers,  Sarah  Helen.  ^22. 
Poyer,  Daniel,  64. 
Poyer,  Francis,  62,  287. 
Poyer,  John,  62,  276. 
Poyer.  Joseph,  62. 
Poyer.   Sarah.  62,   65,   86.    180. 

274.  276.  279. 
Poyer.    Rev.    Thomas,    56,    60. 

62.  70.  J2,  74.  yy,  274.  276. 

279.  287. 
Poyer's   Register.'  267. 
Presbyterians,  31,  51,  63,  67,  70. 
Presbyterian  Church.  56. 
Prichard.  Ann.  296,  338. 
Prien.  Martha,  343. 
Prime.    Nathaniel.    Ward    and 

Sands.  181. 
Prince.  Robert.  281. 
Prince.  \Vm.,  361,  364,  365. 
Provost,  Rev.  Samuel.   T12. 
Prudden.    Rev.   John.   /t^. 
Pudney.  John.  283. 
Puntine.   Ann.   311.   316. 
Puntine,   Elizabeth.  328. 
Puntine.  Henry,  311. 
Puntine,  Marg-aret,  306.  342. 
T^untinc,   ATartha,  306. 
Puntincj  Alary,  311. 
Puntine.  Mr.,   1 14. 
Puntine.    Wm..    181.    306.    357. 

362.  363.  7,f)=^,  367,  368,  370. 

371- 
Purchase.  Albert  B.,  205. 


Purchase,  Clarence  A.,  205. 
Purchase,  R.,  383. 
Purchase.  Mrs.  R.,,  213. 
I*urdy,  Cornelius,  299,  340. 
Purdy,    David,    294.    298,    299, 

307.  343- 
Purdy,  John,  309. 
Purdy,  Levinah,  299.  341. 
Purdy,  Alary,  298.  299. 
I'untine.  Nancy.  328. 
Puntine,  Sarah.  314. 
Quacoe,    Elizabeth,    Peter    and 

Thomas,  268. 
Quakers,  57,  29.  47. 
Queen  Anne.  178,  179. 
Rand,  Mr..  159. 
Rapelai,   Cornelius.  339. 
Rapalie.  Mary,  294. 
Ka])elai,  Sarah.  291. 
Ra])alay,  Cornelius,  298. 
Rapaiey,  Bernard,  294. 
Rapal}e.  Catherine  Ann.  309. 
Rapelye.  Daniel  and  Ellen.  307. 
Rapelye.  AL.  384. 
Rapelye.   George,  307. 
Rapelye.  Charles,  376. 
Ra])elyea.   George,  342. 
Rapelyea,  John,  350. 
Ra])elyea.  Mrs.  ATartin  S..  203, 

233- 
Ratoon.   Rev.    Elijah    Dunham, 
1  ro.  III.  112.  113.  114.  115. 

304- 
Rattoon.  Margaret,  270.  287. 
Rattoon.  Sarah,  270. 
Rattoon.  Thomas.  270,.  287. 
Ray,  Robert,   182. 
Raynor.  .Susan.  333. 
Raynor.   Floyd.  234. 
Relniilding  Church,    1861.    182. 
Read.    Abigail.    Catherine    and 

Robert.  286. 
Read.  Small.  283. 
Readc.   John  and   Marv.  80. 


OF  GRACE  CHURCH 


429 


Reed,  George,  295. 

Reed,  Hannah,  285. 

Reed,  Harry  F.,  216. 

Reeker,  Elizabeth,  278. 

Reeve,.  Tuttle,  366. 

ReHef  Society,  Jamaica  Hos- 
pital, 209,  211,  212. 

Regina,  Mary,  336. 

Reid,  Elizal^eth  and  Thomas, 
302. 

Remsen,  Abraham  and  Nauchy, 

319- 
Remsen,   Mr.,    176. 
Remsen.i  Mrs.  Philip  H.,  213. 
Remsen,   Maria,  321. 
Remsen,  Sarah,  314,  334. 
Renny,  Mary,  301. 
Renny,  Nathaniel,  341. 
Rensselaer,   General   Van,    174. 

186. 
Rew,'  Abraham,  293. 
Reynolds,   Augnstin,  274. 
Reynolds,   Catherine.  279,   287. 
Reynolds,  Bythia,  273,  274. 
Reynolds,  Edward,  279. 
Reynolds,  George,  86„  180,  272, 

'  273,  274,  279,  285,    287. 
Reynolds,  James,  273. 
Reynolds,   Nicholas,  279,  287. 
Reynolds,  Rachel.  272. 
Rhinelander,   Mary,   185. 
Rhodes,  Abiathar,  181,  317,  385. 
Rhodes,  Deborah  J.,  185. 
Rhodes,  James  J.,  215. 
Rhoades.  Richard  W.,  212. 
Rice,  Arthur  W.,  160. 
Rice,   Bessie  Sheridan,   162. 
Rice,  Rev.  Edwin  B.,  158. 
Rice,  Zelia  Stanton,  162. 
Richardson.  William,  304. 
Riche,  Phillip,  282. 
Richmond,    Mrs.    Edwin,    213, 

231. 
Rider.  John.  292. 


Ridley,  Solomon,  281. 
Riner,  George,  321. 
Rising,  Emma,  377. 
Ritchie,  Andrew,  356. 
Roach,  Charles  and  Elizabeth, 

301. 
Roach,  James,  211. 
Roach,  Judith  Rosevelt,  308. 
Roach,  Timothy,  303. 
Roades,  Joseph,  282. 
Roarden,    Jane    and    William, 

297. 
Robenson,  William,  279. 
Roberts,  Jeremiah,  317. 
Robinson,  Joseph,  366,  368. 
Robinson,  Miss,   198. 
Robinson,  Mr.,  176. 
Robinson,  Mrs.  W.  S.,  383. 
Robinson,  Sarah,  366. 
Roberts,  Sarah,  284. 
Rochford,  Thomas,  354,  356. 
Rodman,  Charlotte,  322. 
Rodman,  Clarissa,  308,  343. 
Rodman,  Mrs.,  387. 
Rodman,  Thomas  H.,  333. 
Roe,  Amanda,  376. 
Roe,  Anna,  306,  308,  325,  342, 

342. 
Roe,  Benjamin.  308,  325,  343. 
Roe,  Betsy,  306,  342. 
Roe.    Capt.    Joseph,    323,    340, 

388. 
Roe,  Caroline  and  Ellen,  388. 
Roe,  Charles,  272. 
Roe,  David,  293. 
Roe,  Elizabeth,  272,  308. 
Roe,  Gilbert.  181,  308.  323,  343, 

Roe,  Henry,  334. 

Roe,  Helen,  322. 

Roe,  John   B.,   181,  272,  282. 

Roe,  Joseph,  181,  292,  308,  370, 

376. 
Roe,  Lafayette  and  Lewis,  376. 


430 


ORIGIN  AND  HISTORY 


Roe,   Lawrence,   i8i,  306,  326, 

342,  368.  376,  385. 
Roe,  Margaret,  308,  343. 
Row,  Mary,  Susanna  and  Wil- 

liam,  277. 
Roe,   Nathaniel,  308,  327,  343, 

Roe,  Oliver,  292. 

Roe,  Sarah.  323,  376,  385. 

Roe,  Silas,   181,  308,  318,  ^2^, 

343.  37^- 

Roe,  Thomas,  291,  308,  343. 

Roe,  Wm.,  322. 

Rogers,  Rev.  Robert.  230. 

Rood.  Hope,  366. 

Rood,  John,  362,  368. 

Roods,  Abiather,  363,  365. 

Roods,   Isaac,  362. 

Roods,  John,  353. 

Roods,  Nathaniel,  352,  361. 

Roods,  Richard,  359. 

Roosevelt,  Judith,  343. 

Roosevelt,  Peter,  128,  302. 

Rose,  Gilbert,  354,  357,  361. 

Rose,  Joe,  365,  368. 

Ross,  Mrs.,  388. 

Rouch,   Charles,  361. 

Rowe,  Sarah,  291. 

Rowland,  Anne.  317. 

Rowland,   Benjamin,    181,  322, 

376. 
Rowland,  David,  294,  328,  365. 

37^- 

Rowland,  Hannah.  318. 

Rowland.  Ida.  181.  328.  376. 

Rowland.  James,  316.  322. 

Rowland.  John,  376. 

Rowland.  Mrs.  Jane  and  Jona- 
than. 387. 

Rowland.  Mary  E.  and  Jose- 
phine, 185. 

Rowland.  Miss.  388. 

Rowland,  Mr.,  114,  129. 

Rowland,   Mrs.,  385,  387. 


Rowland,  Phcbe,  320,  376. 
Rowland,  Sarah,  292,  316. 
Rushmore,  Sarah;  280. 
Ryder,  Miss  Maud,  213, 
Ryder,  Stephen,  291. 
Ryder,  W'ancke,  281. 
Ryeson,  Peter,  292. 
Sackett,  Augustus,  366. 
Sackett,  Elizabeth,'  305,  T,yy. 
Sackett,  Hannah,  276,  278,  284. 
Sackett,  James,  369. 
Sackett,  Joseph,  276,  285,  359. 
Sacket,  Mary,i  377. 
Sackett,  Millecent,  378. 
Sackett,  Samuel,  295,  305,  324, 

341,  359-  377- 
Sackett,  Thomas,  276,1  326,  ^^yy. 
Sackett,  William,  285. 
St.  Cecilia's  Coffee  House,  41. 
St.  Cornelia  Flower  Guild.  204, 

240. 
St.  Gabriel's  Church.  162. 
St.  George's  Church,  ^y,  56,  97, 

III,   179. 
St.  James'  Church,  56,  iii,  231, 
St.  John's  Church,  225. 
St.  Mark's  Church.  197. 
St.  Michael's  Church.  204. 
St.  Paul's  Church.  Albany,  206. 
St.  Peter's  Church,  94. 
St.     Phebe's     Mission     House, 

196. 
St.  Stephen's  Chapel.  240. 
Sale,  Ann,^  377. 
Sale,  Daniel  Edward,  315. 
Sale.  Eliza.  317. 
Sale,  William,  385. 
Saltman,  Charles.  293. 
Sanctuary  enlargement,  218. 
Sanders,  Ann,  282. 
Sands.  Abigail,  285. 
Sands,  Mary.  278. 
Santon.  Philis.  321. 
Sathcrland.   Jennet.   358. 


OF  GRACE  CHURCH 


431 


Satterlee,  Rev.  Henry  W.,  i66. 
Sawyer,    Catherine,    2694    284, 

286. 
Sawyer,  Daniel,  86,  180. 
Sawyer,  Francis,  269,  286. 
Sawyer,   Rachel,   286. 
Sawyer,  Thomas,  269. 
Sayres.    Abigail    and    Martha, 

336- 
Sayres,  Annie  Eliza,  126,  326. 
Sayres,  Anna  Leah,  125. 
Sayres,     Elizabeth,     153,     ;^T^y, 

'  385. 
Sayres,   Rev.    George   H.,    116, 

117,  120,  122,  123,  124,  176, 

181,  336. 
Sayres,     Gilbert     Barker,     125, 

179.  252,  333,  384. 
Sayres,  Isaac,  ^yy. 
Sayres.  John  T.,  328,  379. 
Sayres.  Lydia,  126,  334,  338. 
Sayres,   Mary   Regina,    126. 
Savres,  Rev.  William  Seaman, 

'   125. 
Sayres,    William   J.,    151,    182, 

'  335- 
Schenck,  Helen,  322. 
Schible,  John,  336. 
Schmitt,  Rev.  F.,  231. 
Schoonmaker,    George    Henry, 

337'  383- 
Schoonmaker,  Rev.  Jacob,  133. 
Schuyler,  Mrs.  Eugene,  186. 
Scot,  David,  280. 
Scott,   Capt.  John,   18. 
Scriba,  Mrs..  385. 
Seabury,  Rev.  Samuel,  56,  88, 

89.  92.  176,  257. 
Seabury's   (Rev.  S.)   death,  94. 

loi,  no. 
Sealy,  Charles,.  309. 
Sealy.  Elizabeth,  314. 
Sealy,   Emeline,   377. 
Sealy,  George  Ireland,  315. 


Sealy,  John,  317. 

Sealy,    Joseph,    181,,    302,    368, 

370,  377,  3S7. 
Sealy,  Mrs.,  386. 
Sealy,   Richard,   322. 
Sealy,  Robert,  311. 
Sealy,  Ruth,i  293. 
Seaman,  Anna   Leach,  333. 
Seaman,  Cornelia,  320. 
Seaman,  Hannah  R.,  322. 
Seaman,  Israel,  292. 
Seaman,  Rowland,  332. 
Seaman,.  William,  293,  336. 
Seavey,  Charles  H.,  215. 
See,  Mr.,  221. 
Shandine,  Daniel,  285. 
Shaw,  Elizabeth,  321. 
Shelly,  Daniel,.  215. 
Shelton,  Nathan,  317. 
Sherlock,  Willianiv  257,  259. 
Shimmins,  Margaret,  377. 
Shoals,  John,  298,  340. 
Shutphen,   Aidy,   294. 
Silleck,.  Nathan,  278. 
Simison,   Charles,  333. 
Simison,  Jeremiah,  385. 
Simison,  Mary  Ann,  386. 
Simison,  Mrs.,  323. 
Simmons,  Charles,  303. 
Simmons,  Jane.  283. 
Simmons,     Nathaniel     (daugh- 
ter), 323. 
Simmons,  Samuel,  360. 
Simmonds,   William,   309,   343, 

360. 
Simonson,  Ann   Augusta,    185, 

209,1  259. 
Simonson,  Aury,   371. 
Simonson,    Charles    J.,    Eliza-    1^ 

beth.    Peter,    Rebecca   and 

Sarah,  377. 
Simonson,  Jeremiah,    181,   377. 
Simonson,    Misses,     205,     211, 

244. 


432 


ORIGIN  AND  HISTORY 


Sinionson,  Aliriaineii,  314. 
Sinionson,  Miss  Sadie,  209. 
Sinionson,  Mr.,   176. 
Simonson,  Smith  M.,  384. 
Sinclair,  Mrs.,  386. 
Si])k-ins.  J  no.,  278. 
Skillnian.  Joseph   II..   112. 
Ski(hii(.)rc.  Abigail.  326,  378. 
Skidniorc,  David  \V.,   182..  333. 
Skidmore,  Elizabeth,  378. 
Skidmore,  J  no.,   285. 
Skidmore.  John.   129,   181,   182. 

335.  3^^^.  3^3^  364.  384- 
Skidmore,  Mabel.  Brenton.  184. 
Skidmore.  Mr.,   114.   176. 
Skidmore.  Mrs.,  385. 
Skidmore,     Samuel,     ^50,     351, 

Skidmore,   Susanna   and   Trcd- 
•     well,  378. 

Skidmore,  Widow,  ^,22,  387. 
Skidmore,     Willctt."    358..    362, 

.Skinner,   Abraham,   363. 
Skinner,    Gertrude,   292. 
Skinner,  Margaret,  363,  377. 
Skinner,    Phillij),    355. 
Skinner.  W^idow.  314. 
.Sliney,   Charles,   216. 
Smallings,    Thomas.    284. 
Smalshanks.   Ann,   274. 
.'^malshanks,  Cornelia,' 276. 
Smalshanks,    T<imes,    274,    275. 

276. 
Smalshanks,     Mary.    274.    275, 

276. 
Smelt,  Louisa.  383. 
.Smiley.   Wm.   and   Maria,    t,//. 
Smith.  Abel.  281.' 
Smith.  Abigail.  271.  272,  278. 
Smith.  Ann,  298,  302,  306.  340. 
Smith.  .Arthur.  270.  271.  272. 
Smith.   Benjamin   and   Howell, 

3.S3- 


Smith,   Catherine,   335.  385. 

Smith.  Charles,  363. 

Smith,     Christopher,     85.     300. 

357.  3^.  3^3- 
Smith,  Daniel.   182,  2y2. 
Smith,  Deborah,  268,  287. 
Smith,  l-'li/.abeth.  280.  286.  292, 

333- 
.Smith,  (ieorge.  Lucy  and  W'es- 

sell,  377. 
.Smith,   Hannah,  268.  269,  272, 

273,  284.  287. 
.Smith.  Hesterj  282. 
.Smith.  Hutchins.  298. 
.Smith.  Jacob.  371. 
Smith,    James,    181,    231,    293, 

.  334.  364,  377.  386. ' 
.Smith,  Jane.  322. 
.Smith.  Jeffrey.  367.  370. 
.Smith.  Jemima.  269. 
.Smith.  Johanna.  307.  343. 
Smith..  John.  257.  268,  269,  286, 
319,  342,  350,  351,  353,  357, 

358,  363.  364,  366,  369.  377- 
.Smith.  Joseph.'  73. 

.Smith.  Katherine.  328. 
.Smith.  Leonard,  272. 
Smith,  Margaret.  296. 
Smith,   Martha.  304.  377. 
Smith.  Mary,  87,  269,  282,  291. 

296,  300,  314.  333  338. 
Smith,  Micah,  283. 
Smith.  Mrs.  G.  W..  153. 
Smith.  Mrs.  Manning,  21^,  214. 

384.  389- 
Smith.  Nathaniel  and  Nicholas, 

3f>4- 
Smith.  Nehemiah.  73.  366. 
Smith.  Noah.  371. 
Smith.  Othniel.  363. 
Smith.  Phebe.  284.  320. 
Smith.  Piatt,  358.  361. 
Smith,  Rel)ecca,  268. 


OF  GRACE  CHURCH 


433 


Smith,  Rev.  Dr.  George  Wil- 
liamson, 150,  199,  202,  229, 
230,  233,  246,  386,  389. 

Smith,  Rev.  James  A.,  176,  193. 

Smith,    Ruth,   269,   286.'   311. 

Smith,  Samuel,  78,  86,  180,  257, 
259,  268,  269,  272J  273,  287. 

Smith,   Sarah,  273,  292,  338. 

Smith.  Simeon,  366,  370. 

Smith,  Susan,  333. 

Smith,!  Thomas,  296,  361. 

Smith,  Walters,  359. 

Smith,  William  Wood,  234,  292, 
304,  309,  320,  323.  341,  359. 
367.)  370. 

Smithfield.  Deborah,  340. 

Smyth,  C.  G.,  183,  216. 

Smyth,  John,  234. 

Smyth,  Miss  Lillian,  205. 

Snedecker,  John,  352,  355. 

Snediker.i  Tracy,   234. 

Snediker,  Mr.,  176. 

Snow,  James,  215. 

Society  for  the  Propagation  of 
the  Gospel,  32. 

Sonmans,  Peter  and  Susanna, 
270. 

Soothoff.  John   C,    182. 

Southard,  Thomas,  318. 

Spark,  Jonasv  285. 

Speeding,  Rachel  Ann,  185. 

Spillane,  Paul  J.,  215. 

Spiller,  Henry  E.,  202. 

Spragg,  John,  321. 

Springsteen,  David,  363. 

Sprong,  David,  362. 

Sproul,   Elizabeth,  328. 

Sprouls,  Emeline,  335. 

Sproull,  James  J.,  303,  378. 

Sproull,  Jeremiah,  378. 

Sproull,  John,  181.  378. 

Sprowls,  Jane  Isabella,  319. 

Starman.  Eliza  Henrietta.  317. 

Steed.  Charity,  275. 

Steed,  Elizabeth  and  Sarah, 
276. 


Steed,  Mary,  358. 

Steed,   Smith,  274. 

Steed,    William,    86,    180,    274, 

275,,  276,  280,  355. 
Steendam,  Jacob,  20. 
Stehlin,  Miss  Josephine,  203. 
Stehr,  Robert,  215. 
Stephenson,    Daniel,   278. 
Stephenson,  Susanna,  280. 
Stewart,  Charles  J.,  184. 
Stewart,)  Lydia,  125. 
Stewart,  Mrs.  Is.,  387. 
Stewart,  Mrs.  J.  E.,  160,  233. 
Stevens,  George  A.,  216. 
Stevens,  James,  Jno.  &,  269. 
Stevenson,   Thomas,  285. 
Stilwell,-  Catherine,  285. 
Stillwell.  Elizabeth,  73. 
Stiles,  John,  354. 
Stine,  Elizabeth,  333. 
Stirling,   Lord,    15. 
Sticklin,  Mary,  301. 
Stilwel,  Rebecca,  280. 
Stocking,!  Rev.  Samuel  S.,  155, 

160,  176,  183,  184,  196,  200, 

203,  204,  221,  222.  283. 
Stoebner,  Rev.  Frederick  231. 
Stockton,'  Richard,  272,  282. 
Stone  Church,  49,  51,  112. 
Stone,  John,  353. 
Stoothoff,  Mr.,  176. 
Story,  Henry,  318. 
Story,  Zebediah,  362,  368. 
Stoterj  Peter,  317. 
Sturt,  Mr.,  41. 

Stuyvesant,  Gov.,  17,  19,  25. 
Strebeck,  Rev.  George,  115. 
Straub,  Henry,  337.    . 
Strickland,  Oliver,  367.  369. 
Strickland,  Sarah,  318. 
Strictland,  Jonathan,  298. 
Strictland,  Mary,  298,  339. 
Steed,  Deborah;  274,  275,  276, 

280. 


434 


ORIGIN  AND  HISTORY 


Stringham,  Joseph,  291. 

Stringham,  Mary  and  Thom- 
asj  279. 

Stroud,  Rachel,  271. 

Stroud.    William.    271.    280. 

Stringham,  Wm.  and  Mrs.,  319. 

Styne,  Anna,  293. 

Suffragan.  Bishop,  38. 

Sullivan,   Miss   C.  384. 

Sullivan,  Florence,  293. 

Sunday  School,  194,  209,  240, 
243,  246,  247,  205,  206,  197, 
207,  210,  216.  219. 

Sutherland,   Elizabeth,  377. 

Sutherland,   Maria.  359.  377. 

Sutherland,  John.  George  and 
Jennet,  377. 

Suydam.  Eliza,   185. 

Suydam,  John,  365. 

Swayzee.  Wm.,  387. 

Symmons,  Henry  and  Richard. 
281. 

Sypher,  Abraham,  320. 

Symonson.  Elizabeth  and  Jere- 
miah, 315. 

Taffers,   James.   350. 

Talmon,  Jane,  292. 

Talman.  Mary.  280. 

Talman.  Sarah.i  284. 

Talbot,  Rev.  John.  45.  53,  54- 
274. 

Tannerman,  Catherine.  335. 

Tapp,  Mrs.,  181. 

Tator.  Sarah,  383. 

Taylor.  Arianthe.  272.1  273,  274. 

Taylor.  Benjamin.  86,  t8o,  272. 
273,  274,  280. 

Taylor.  Willett,  274. 

Taylor.  Wm..i  365. 

Taylor.  Henry,  215.  272. 

Teilet,  Susanna,  284. 

Temple,  Thomas.  86. 

Tcmpleton.  Catherine  and  Oli- 
ver, 299. 


Templeton.  Jane,  299,;  340. 
Tenison,  Archbishop,  16,  135. 
Terrel,   Antony,  356. 
Terrill,    Anthony    and    Phebe, 

296. 
Thatford,  Anna,  305,  319,  341, 

388. 
Thatford,  Caroline,  314. 
Thatford,   Catharine,  325,    ^28. 

378. 
1  hatford.     Charity,     299,     305. 

328. 
Thatford,  Jane.  378. 
Thatford.  John,   181,  295,  299. 

305.  362,,  378. 
Thatford,  Margaret  and  Sarah, 

303- 
Thatford,    Martha    Prien,    308, 

3^7- 
Thatford,  Mary.  299,  309,  340, 

378. 
Thatford,  Mr.;  176. 
Thatford.  Mrs.,  386. 
Thatford.     William.    310,    350. 

378. 
Theobauld.   Mrs..  386,   388. 
Thomas,  Jno.,  285. 
Thomas,!  Mary,  320. 
Thomas,  Rev.  John,  54,  69. 
Thompson.  Arabella  G.,  338. 
Thompson.  Ira  C.  215. 
Thompson.  Margaret,   185. 
Tompkins.    Edward   and  John. 

342. 
Thorn,  Ann.i  295. 
Thorn,     Bathsheba.    302.    305. 

Thorn.    Daniel.    292.    298.    305. 

340.  341. 
Thorn,  Mary.i  305.  341. 
Thorn.  Samuel.  294. 
Thorn.  Winifred.  286. 
Thorne.   Benjamin,  86.   180. 
Thorne.  Daniel,  364. 


OF  GRACE  CHURCH 


435 


Thorne,   Kesiah,   Mary,'  Phebe 

and  Richard,  283. 
Thurston,  Abby,  378. 
Thurston,  Benjamin,  362. 
Thurston,    Cornelia,   322. 
Thurston,   Elizabeth,  291,  378. 
Thurston,!  Grace,  280. 
Thwing,    Rev.    Cornelius,    141, 

230. 
Tiex,  Elizabeth,  282. 
Tillotson,  John,   125. 
Titus,  David,  301,  306,  341. 
Titus,  Jacob  and  Robert,  284. 
Titus,  James,  283. 
Titus,  John,  181. 
Titus,  Joseph,  292. 
Titus,  Mrs.,  388. 
Titus,  Patience,  298,  324. 
Titus,,  Sarah  and  Susanna,  295. 
Titus,  William  David,  298,  340. 
Tolman,  James,  279. 
Tolman,  Jno.,  280. 
Tom,  Mary,  292. 
Tompkins,   Edward  and  John, 

306. 
Tompkins,  Gilbert,,  309. 
Tompkins,  Sarah,  306,  342. 
Tow^n,  Thompson,  319. 
Tonstal,  Ann,  274. 
Townley,  Rev.  Frank  W.,  231. 
Townsend,   Eliphant,   278. 
Townsend,!  Henry,  17. 
Townsend,    Thomas     P.,     181, 

378. 
Tuly,  Ann  and  Catherine. 
Tuly,  Christopher.  272,  282. 
Tuttle,  Daniel  and  John,  358. 
Tuttle,  Joseph,  362,  367. 
Tuttle,  Samuel,  365.  367. 
Tunes,  John.  257. 
Turner,  Elinor  and  Jno.,  269. 
Turner,  Mary  and  Samuel,  297. 
Treadwell,,  Mr..  94. 
Trinity    Church,    71,    loi.    iii. 

112,  129. 


Trinity  Church,  Fishkill,   193. 
Trinity  College,  199. 
Troup,  Alexander,  314,  325. 
Troup,(  Christopher,  323,  378. 
Troup,  Elizabeth,  340,  385. 
Troup,  John,  85,  176,  179,  257, 
259.  295,  305;  327,  341,  350, 

365,  370,  378. 
Iroup,  Mrs.,  181. 
Troup,  Robert,  308,  343. 
Troup,  Sarah,  305^  378,  385,  387. 
Troup,  Thomas  Colgan,  310. 
Truxton,  Thomas,  257. 
Tyler,  Jacob,  351,  353. 
Udal,  Deborah,  281. 
Uitendale,  Paulus,  378. 
Ulshoffer,  Michael,  320. 
Umphreys,  Elizabeth,  272.  276, 

277. 
Umphreys,  Jno.,  2jy. 
Umphreys.   Thomas,  272.   276, 

277. 
Umphreys,  William,  276,  285. 
Underbill,  Ann,  298,  340. 
Underbill,  Elizabeth  Ann,  306, 

342. 
Underbill,     Hannah,    298,    306, 

340. 
Underbill,   Jonathan,   298.   306, 

340. 
Underbill,  Mary,  281,  298,  340. 
Underbill,  Mr.,   114. 
Underbill,  Sarah,  298,  340. 
Underbill,  William,  298,  340. 
Unwin,  Mrs.  William  and  Wil- 
liam,  184. 
Urquhart,,  Mr..   37,   53,   54,   55, 

56,  61,  68,  71.  m 

Ustick,  Ann,  302. 
Ustick,  Deborah,  295. 
Ustick,  Jane,  302,  304. 
Ustick,   Susanna.i  302,   303. 
Ustick,  William,  302. 
Valentine,  Ann,  284. 


436 


ORIGIN  AND  HISTORY 


Valentine,  Elihu. 
Valentine,  Elizabeth,  389. 
Valentine,  Jacamiah,  364. 
Valentine,  James,i  181,  388. 
Valentine,  James,  Jr.,  i8i. 
\'alentine,  Jeremiah,   114,    133, 
135,  151,  181,  182,1333,  379, 

384. 
Valentine,  John,  322,  379. 
Valentine,   Martha,   379. 
Valentine,  Mary,  379,  386. 
Valentine,!  Miss,  182,  389. 
Valentine,  Obadiah,  379,  389. 
Valentine,   Mrs.   Obadiah,  387, 

389. 

Valentine.  Phillip,  368. 

Valentine,  Miss  Rachel. 
Valentine,  Ruth,  379,1  284. 

Valentine,  Sarah,  185,  379. 

Valentine,  Susan,   379. 

Valantine,  Thomas,    282.    319, 

323- 
V^alentine.,  Valentine,  379. 
Valentine,  William,  379. 
Van  Allen,  Elizabeth,  309.  343. 
Van   Allen,    Mrs.    Henry,   225, 

233.  384- 
Van  Beurcn.  John,  318. 
Van  Brunt.,  Elizabeth,  Joseph, 

Margaret.      Rutgert      and 

Sarah.  378. 
Van  Brunt,  John,  361,  378. 
Van    Brunt,   Joshua.   351.   354, 

364,  365.  367- 
Van  Brunt,  Jost.,  361,  378. 
Van  Brunt.  Mr..  176. 
Van  Brunt.  Tunis.  369. 
Van  Dam.  Eliza,  314. 
Vandel)ugh.  Mrs.,  388. 
Vanderbilt.  Jeremiah,  379. 
Vanderwater.    Elizabeth,    292. 
Vanderwatcr.  Samuel.  321. 
Van   Cortland.   Phillip,  352. 
Van      Cortland,     Richard    and 

Sarah.  379. 


Van  Cortland,   174. 
\'anderverg,  Nathaniel,  182. 
X'anderverg,  Mr.,,  124,  151. 
Vanderverg,    Sarah,    333. 
\'an  Lew,  James,  362. 
\an   Lue,  John,  326,  355,  357, 

367- 
Van  Lew,  Richard.  326. 
Vandervoort,  Aletta,  388. 
Vandervoort,  Ann,  i8i. 
Vandevoort,  Lydia  B.,  319. 
Vandervoort,   Mrs.,  162. 
Vandervoort,    Paul,    324. 
Vandervoort.i  Peter,  302. 
Vandervoort,  Mrs.,  385. 
Vanhoef,  Isaac,  257. 
Vanhorne,  Mary,  292. 
Van  Hook,  Isaac,  86,  180,  280. 
Vanpelt,    Elizabeths    294,    305. 

341. 
Van   Pelt.  Jacob,  300. 
\'anpelt.  John,  299,  340. 
Van  Pelt.  Marg.,  306,  342. 
Van  Pelt,  Susanna,  306. 
Van  Velsa.  Hester,  284. 
\'an    Nostrand.;  Ann,    Charles. 

Martha,  Rachel,  Sarah  and 

William.  379. 
Van  Nostrand,  Aaron,  96,  119, 

176,  301,  328.  353.  397,  385. 
Van  Nostrand.,  Elizabeth,  379. 

320. 
Van  Nostrand,  John,  181.  378, 

379.  385.  387- 
V^an  Nostrand.  Joseph.  324.  379. 
Van  Nostrand.  Phebe  M.,  387. 
Van  Nostrand.  Mary.  320,  378. 
Van  Nostrand,  Nicholas,  378. 
Van    Nostrand.    Thomas.    322, 

379- 

\^an   Nostrand.  John  and  Ste- 
phen. 318. 

Van  Nostrand,  William.  317. 

Van  Renssalaer,  Ann.  379. 


OF  GRACE  CHURCH 


437 


Van  Saadt,>  Winant,  351,  385. 

Van  Sicklen,  Charity,  318. 

Van  Sinderen,  Adrian,  181. 

V^an  Wickley,  Margaret,  309. 

Van   Wyck,,  Altie,   283. 

Van  Wyck,  Catherine,  284. 

Van  Wyck,  Cornelius,  291. 

Van  Wyck,  Sarah,  182,  294. 

Van  Wyck,  Theodorus,  283. 

Vassar,  Edward,  337. 

Vassar,  Thomas,  334. 

Verity,  John,  Joseph  and  Sam- 
uel, 23S. 

Verity,  Wm.  Henry,  334. 

Verplank,  Gillon,  294. 

Vestrymen  and  wardens,  186, 
190,  261. 

Vesey,  Rev.  Mr.,  37,  50,  53,  65, 
71,  80,,  86. 

Vaughn,  Aletta,  296,  297,  338. 

Vaughn,  William,  296,  297. 

Vockroth,  Otto,  215. 

Voorhase,  Elizabeth,  James  and 
John,,  307. 

Vooheis,  Eliza,  Marian,  315. 

Voorhoes,  John  and  Sarah,  340. 

Voris,  Stephen,  359,  364. 

Walker,  Catherine,  270. 

Walker,  Elizabeth,  270,^  275. 

Walker,   Frances,  268. 

Walker,  Jno.,  270,  275. 

Walker,  Samuel,  268. 

Walles,  Alexander,  352. 

Wallers  History  of  Flushing, 
29. 

Wallers..  Rev.  Henry  D.,  104, 
200,  231. 

Wararop,  James,  352. 

Ward,  Miss  J.  Gertrude.  183. 

Ward,  Mrs.  Ann,  388. 

Ward,  Mrs.  Eldora,  214. 

Ward,  Mrs.  Francis  K.,   186. 

Ward.  Phebe,  380.  388. 

Ward,  Samuel,  Sr.,   181. 


Ward,  Samuel,  Jr.,  i8i. 
Wardens  and  vestrymen,   186- 

190,  261. 
Warne,;  Aletta,  300,  380. 
Warne,  Catherine,  304. 
Warner,  Henry  W.,  319. 
Warren,  Tarquina  Caro,  338. 
Warne,  Wm.,  360,  380. 
Washbourn,  Samuel,  276. 
Washbourn,  Hannah,:  276. 
Washbourn,  Jno.,  276. 
Washington,  Gen.,  99,   112. 
Waterbury,  Henry,  303. 
Waters,  Aletta,  298,1  339. 
Waters,  Ann,  297,  298,  304,  306, 

339,  341. 
Waters,  Anthony,  86,  180,  284. 
Waters,  Daniel,  280. 
Waters,    Elizabeth,    292,    316, 

318. 
Waters,   Foster,  275,  276,  277, 

279. 
Waters,  Gilbert,  275. 
Waters,  Hannah,  304,  341. 
Waters,  James,  356^  359,   360, 

361,  362,  380. 
Waters,  Jno.,  276,  2yy. 
Waters,    John,    296,    297,    298, 

301,,  306,  328. 
Waters,  Judah,  321. 
Waters,    Margaret.     304,    324, 

341- 
Waters,    Mary,    275.    276,    277, 

279. 
Waters,  Misses  M.  and  E.,  383, 

384. 
Waters,  Mrs.,  389. 
Waters,  Oeggy,  359. 
Waters,  Oliver,  292. 
Waters,  Richard  Betts,  309. 
Waters,   Talman   James,    316. 
Waters.  William,-  292,  304,  341. 
Watkins,  Dr.  W.  F.,  159. 
Watts,  Jane,  283. 


438 


ORIGIN  AND  HISTORY 


Watts,   Pearson,   321. 
Way,  Richard,  295. 
Way,  Ann,  295. 
Way,  Timothy,  303. 
Wayne,  Mrs.,  225. 
Waynman,  Ann,  298,  340. 
Waynman,  Hannah,  298,  340. 
Waynman,  Sarah,  340. 
Waynman,   WilHam,i  294,   298. 
Weaver,  Catherine,  306,  342. 
Weaver,  Sarah,  306,  342. 
Weaver,  WilHam,  306. 
Weber,  Albert,  233. 
Weeden,  Alger  E.,  202. 
Weeden,  James,  182. 
Weeks,  Eliza,  317,  318. 
Weeks,  Jno.,  284. 
Weeks,  Rev.  William  H.,  231. 
Weeton,  Jno.,  278. 
Welling,  Alice  Bannister,  316. 
Welling,  Anne,  379. 
Welling,  Bonnella,  302. 
Welling,    Benjamin,    305,    318, 

380. 
Welling.  Catherine.  303. 
Welling.  Charles,  298,  328,  358, 

379.  380. 
Welling,  Edward.  380. 
Welling,    Elizabeth,    305.    328. 

380,  385. 
Welling,  Ennis.  379. 
Welling.   Hannah.  380. 
Welling.  Helen,  379. 
Welling.  Jamesj  357. 
Welling,   John,    181.    309.    310, 

366,  371.  379- 
Welling,  Leanna,  310. 
W^elling.  Mary.  380.  385. 
Welling.  Matilda.  314. 
Welling.  Miss  Martha.  385. 
Welling,   Miss.   323. 
Welling,  Mrs.,  389. 
Welling,  Nancy.  181..  388. 
Welling.  Richard.  298,  339. 


Welling,     Samuel,      129,      181, 

305,  3^«.  380. 
Welling,   Sarah,  283,  293,   307, 

343.  3«8. 
Welling,  Susanna,  296,  379. 
Welling,  Thomas,  73,  182,  296, 

310,  326,  351.  356,  362,  366, 

399- 

Welling,  William,  86,  180,  333. 
Wells,  Ann  and  Robert.  273. 
Wells,  Bishop,  244. 
Welt,  Walter,  233. 
Welwood,  Rev.  J.  C,  230. 
Wenman,  Everet,  386. 
West,  Mary,  286. 
West,  William,  270,  278,  286. 
Westay,  Albert  F.,  216. 
Whaley,  Hannah,  294. 
Whellin,  Charles,  270. 
Whellin,  Bickley,  270. 
Whellin.     Eliza    and    Hannah, 

277. 
Whellin.  Elizabeth,  270.  272. 
Whellin.  Francis,  272. 
Whellin,  Jane,  270. 
Whellin.    Jno.,    270.    271,    273, 

277,  285. 
Whellin.  John,  274. 
Whellin.   Sarah.  270,  271,  273, 

274,  279. 
Whellin.  Thomas,  270,  272,  273, 

292. 
Whellin.  Willm.  270.  271. 
White,  Ann.  284. 
White.  Arthur.  233. 
White,  Catherine,  271. 
White,  Abigail,  271. 
White,  Daniel,  269. 
White.  Elizabeth.  283. 
White.  Mrs.  Theodore  K..  203. 
White.  Peter.  268.  269,  271. 
White.  Richard  Grant,   115. 
White,  Ruth,  268. 
White.  William,  286. 


OF  GRACE  CHURCH 


439 


Whitehead,    Abigail,    268,   269, 

270,  271,  283,  287. 
Whitehead,  Ann,  274. 
Whitehead,  Benjamin,  86,   180, 

257,  259,  276,  277,  284. 
Whitehead.'  Charity,   270,   283. 
Whitehead,     Daniel,    86,     180, 

268,  270,  274,  275,  284,  285, 

286,  297,  298,  306,  310,  324, 

350,  351,  354,  359,  380. 
Whitehead,    Elinor,    274,    275, 

277. 
Whitehead,     Edward     Bardin, 

298. 
Whitehead,      Catherine,      297. 

298,  306,  339,  380. 
Whitehead,   Eliza,  276. 
Whitehead,      Elizabeth,      274, 

277,  285. 
Whitehead.    Fanny.    301. 
Whitehead,  Hannah,  274,  276. 
Whitehead,  Helena,  276. 
Whitehead,  Jane,  268,  286. 
Whitehead,  Jonathan,  270,  286. 
Whitehead.!  Maria,  310. 
Whitehead,  Mary,  285. 
Whitehead,  Nancy,  361. 
White.  Rev.  Calvin,  114,  363. 
Whitehead,     Sarah.    270,    285, 

286. 
Whitehead,  Susanna..  270. 
Whitehead.    Thomas,    'j'i^,    270, 

274,  276,  284.  286. 
Whitfield,  Mr.,  92. 
Whitlock,  Miss  Hattie.  135. 
Whitman.!  John  Winslow.  322. 
Wick.  Rev.  R.  K..  230,  231. 
Wickes,  Eliphalet,  365. 
Wickes,  Thomas,  371. 
Wickham.  Hannah.    181.   385. 
Wickham.  Mary.i  389. 
Wickham,  Sarah.  388. 
Wiesnar,  Catherine,  281. 
Wig-gins.    Ann,    297.    299.    306. 

342. 


Wiggins,    Benjamin,    274;   275, 

V7,  350. 
Wiggins,  Caleb.  275. 
Wiggins,  Catherine,  284,  357. 
Wiggins,  Charity,  277. 
Wiggins,  Elizabeth,  275. 
Wiggins.  Gershon,  275. 
Wiggins,  Harry,  371. 
Wiggins,  Isabella,  271,  282. 
Wiggins,  Jane,  299,  340. 
Wiggins,  John.  352,  358. 
Wiggins,!  Josias,   271. 
Wiggins,  Lucretia,  297,  339. 
Wiggins,  Margaret  and  Simon, 

297. 
Wiggins,  Martha,  296,  338. 
Wiggins.  Mary,  275,  282,  297, 

339. 
Wiggins,  Rachel,  274,  275,  277. 
Wiggins.   Rebecca.   287. 
Wiggins,     Richard,     297.,    299, 

306.  328.  339,  364,  371. 
VViggins.   Samuel.  292. 
Wiggins,  Silas,  86,  180. 
Wiggins.     Stephen.    274.     296, 

297. 
Wiggins.  Thomas,  271.  287. 
Wiggins.  William,  86,  180,  283. 
Wilcocks.  281. 
Wildey,  Mary,  278. 
Wilkins.  Isabella.  296. 
Wilkins,  Isaac,  296. 
Wilkins.  Thomas.  296.  338. 
Wilkins,  William.  295. 
Wilkinson.  Mrs.  A.  J.,  233. 
Willet,   Abraham.   280. 
Willet.  Alice,  292. 
Willet.  Samuel,  274. 
Willet.  Sarah.  268.  276.  282. 
Willet.  Thomas.  268.  283.  284. 

287.  297,  339. 
Willet.i  Thomas,  268,  287.  283. 

287.  306.  341. 
Willet.  William.   286. 


440 


ORIGIN  AND  HISTORY 


Willett,  Alette,  276,  277,  292, 

380. 
Willett,   Ann,   296. 
Willett,  Catherine  and   Elbert, 

380. 
Willett,  Charles.  287. 
Willet,   Deborah,  274. 
Willett,    Edward,   85,   86,    180, 

274.  276,  277,  284,  354,  355, 

380. 
Willet,  Elizabeth,  268,  274,  276, 

278,  284. 
Willet,   Helena,  280. 
Willetv  James,  358. 
Willet,  Jno.,  274,  276. 
Willett,  Johanna,  276. 
Willett,  John,  86,  180,  276,  286, 

293,  350. 
W^illett,  Jonah.  380. 
W^illett,  Keziah,  284. 
W^illett.     Margaret,     284,     296, 

297.  33^'  339- 
Willett,   Marinus,  297,  339. 
Williams,  Captain  Daniel.  294. 
W^illiams,  Jacob,  321. 
Williams.  Mary,  295. 
W^illiams,    Pelliata.   303. 
W^illiams.  Sarah,  316. 
Williamson,  Derica,  278. 
Williamson,     John.     357,     359. 

368.  380. 
Willis,    Benjamin,   275. 
W^illis,  Hannah,  293. 
Willis.    Martha,   274. 
Willis.   Robert,   274,   275. 
Willis.   Sarah.   274.   275. 
W^illoughby.  Mary.  295. 
Wiltsie.  Miss  Amy.  209. 
W^ilson.  James,  287. 
Wilson.  Mr..  91. 
Winchester,  Ernest  T..  202. 
Winthrop,  Matilda,  320. 
Wood,    Epentus,   320. 
Wood.   Herbert,   233. 


Wood,  Howard,  233. 

Wood,  Robert,  274. 

Wood,  Timothy,  284. 

Wood,  William  D.,  M.  D.,  184, 

193,  228,  241,  242,  274,  380. 
Woodred,  Nelly,  303. 
Woodred,  Woodred,  324. 
W^oodward,  Anthony,  319. 
Woodward.   Rev.   Samuel,   125. 
W^ooffendale,   John,    365. 
Woofendale,   Miss,    114. 
W^ooley,  Ann,  282. 
W'ooley,   Miss    Elizabeth,    146. 
Wooley,  Susan,  304. 
Wooley,  Miss  Sarah,  140.  160. 
Woolsey,  Abigail,  287. 
Woolsey,  Derica.  269.  286. 
Woolsey,   Rebecca,  286. 
Woolsey,  Ruth.  269.  286.  287. 
W^oolsey,  Thomas,  287. 
W^oolsey,     William,    269,    278, 

286. 
Worthington.    Bishop,    199. 
Wortman.  Elizabeth.  292. 
W^ortman.  Hannah.  292. 
Wright,  Ann,  275. 
Wright,  Charles,  275,  321. 
Wright,  Daniel,  278. 
W^right.  Henry.  86,  180. 
Wright,   Leveridge..  285. 
W^right.  Mary.  283.  285. 
Wright,  Ruth.  275. 
Wright,  Sarah.  281. 
Wyck.    Miss    x^nne    Van.    134, 

136. 
Wyckoff    Camp    at    Montauk. 

212. 
W^yckoff.  Sheriff,  365.  366. 
Yandle,  Jane.   307.  343- 
Yeomans.  Hannah.  281. 
Young.  Guy,  180,  274.  275,  283. 
Young,  Hannah,  281. 
Young.  Elizabeth  and  William, 

274. 


OF  GRACE  CHURCH 


441 


Young,  Elmira  A.,  337.  Youngs,  Mary  Elizabeth,  334. 

Young,  John  Alvin,  183.  Zandt,  Jane  Van,  87. 

Youngs,  Daniel  and  Eliza,  275.      Zantz,  Sarah,  320. 


